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Title

Modernist mythopoeia : the twilight of the gods / Scott Freer (School of English, University of Leicester, UK).

Author

Freer, Scott, 1967-

Publication

• New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• ©2015

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Description

vi, 238 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Were all Modernists either skeptical or reactionary in matters of Christian belief? How can we express ideas of the sacred distinct from religious commitment? Modernist Mythopoeia: The Twilight of the Gods argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of poetic perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. Modernist mythopoeia is a literary means of eschewing the language of certainty while giving voice to the nature and function of transcendence in a post-religious context. As a comparative study, Scott Freer offers fresh readings on a range of key trans-Atlantic modernist texts, whilst considering their various mythopoeic method or vision: Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarauthustra, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Hilda Doolittle's Trilogy, D.H. Lawrence's Birds, Beasts and Flowers!, and Wallace Stevens' Harmonium. The 'twilight' of modernist mythopoeia is the nuanced and complex way of a godless aesthetic, for it accommodates various shades of secularity and religiosity and brings an inconclusiveness to the mysteries of human existence to be embraced and poeticized. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as well as to the 'return of religion' in modernist studies."--

Subject

• Modernism (Literature)
• Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.

Contents

Zarathustra: Nietzsche's New Redeemer -- 'Hieronymo's mad againe': The Waste Land as Tragic Mythopoeia -- Kafka's Sick Ovidian Animals -- Hilda Doolittle & D. H. Lawrence: Polytheistic and Pagan Revisionary Mythopoeia -- 'Death is the mother of beauty': Wallace Stevens' Harmonium.

Call Number

JFD 15-2037

ISBN

• 9781137035509 (hardback)
• 1137035501 (hardback)

LCCN

2015001718

OCLC

908276183

Author

Freer, Scott, 1967- author.

Title

Modernist mythopoeia : the twilight of the gods / Scott Freer (School of English, University of Leicester, UK).

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFD 15-2037