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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry (Hardcover)
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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
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Going beyond exclusively national perspectives, this volume
considers the reception of the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her
first Latin translator, Catullus, as a literary pair who transmit
poetic culture across the world from the early 20th century to the
present. Sappho's and Catullus' reception has shaped a
transnational network of poets and intellectuals, helping to define
ideas of origins, gender, sexuality and national identities. This
book shows that across time and cultures translations and
rewritings of Sappho and Catullus articulate modernist poetics of
myth and fragmentation, forms of confessionalism and post-modern
pastiche. The inquiry focuses on Italian and North American poetry
as two central yet understudied hubs of Sappho's and Catullus'
modern reception, also linked by a rich mutual intellectual
exchange: key case-studies include Giovanni Pascoli, Ezra Pound,
H.D., Salvatore Quasimodo, Robert Lowell, Rosita Copioli and Anne
Carson, and cover a wide range of unpublished archival material.
Texts are analysed and compared through reception and translation
theories and inserted within the current debate on the Classics as
World Literature, demonstrating how sustained transnational poetic
discourse employs the ancient pair to expand notions of literary
origins and redefine poetry's relationship to human existence.
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