The medieval presence in the modernist aesthetic : unattended moments
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The medieval presence in the modernist aesthetic : unattended moments
（Studies in religion and the arts, v. 11）
Brill, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been "unattended", that is, neglected or ignored. A historical span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner's final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban's speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack
Wagner's Parsifal: Christianity, Celibacy, and Medieval Brotherhood as Ideal in Modernity
Carole M. Cusack
Fergus Mac Roich: Yeats' Damaged Mystic
Joseph A. Mendes
Ezra Pound's Medieval Classicism: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology
Jonathan Ullyot
Marcel Proust on Erotic Dreams and Oneiric Knowledge
Gro Bjornerud Mo
The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound
Mark Byron
Between the "Machinery of Transcendence" and the "Machinery of War": The Unattended Moments of Eugene Ionesco
Octavian Saiu
"Melancholy Matters": Robert Burton and Samuel Beckett
Rina Kim
Whoroscope: Samuel Beckett's Medieval Machine
Holly Phillips
Lancelot and Guinevere in the Inter-War Period: The Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound's Canto vi
Anna Czarnowus
Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker: The Eusa Story and Other Blipful Figgers
Chris Ackerley
Index
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