The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic : Unattended Moments.

Intro -- The Medieval Presence in theModernist Aesthetic -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Wagner's Parsifal: Christianity, Celibacy, and Medieval Brotherhood as Ideal in Modernity -- Introduction -- Wagner and Wolfram -- Amfortas and Klingsor -- Kundry and the Absence of the Female in Parsifal -- Wagner and The Waste Land: T. S. Eliot's Grail Legend -- The Medieval as Cure for the Malaise of the Modern -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Fergus Mac Róich: Yeats' Damaged Mystic -- Introduction -- Yeats and the Contemplative Life -- Yeats and Sir Samuel Ferguson -- Mysticism as Dysphoria -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Ezra Pound's Medieval Classicism: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to Philology -- Introduction -- Gaston Paris -- Joseph Bédier -- Walter Ker -- Pound's Matter of Troy -- Bibliography -- Marcel Proust on Erotic Dreams and Oneiric Knowledge -- Introduction -- Dreaming Minds -- Oneirôgmos -- Mixed Dreams -- Dream Epistemologies -- Oneiric Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- The Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra Pound -- Introduction -- Abd-l-Malik, Charles Martel and the Early Middle Ages -- Greek into Arabic: The Emergence of Islamic Falsafa -- Philology and Philosophy in Pound's Donna Mi Prega -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Between the "Machinery of Transcendence" and the "Machinery of War": The Unattended Moments of Eugene Ionesco -- Introduction -- An Unlikely Medieval Reminiscence: The Romanian Far Right -- A Theatre of the Absurd -- The Machinery of Transcendence -- The Orthodox Icon -- The Light from Within -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "Melancholy Matters": Robert Burton and Samuel Beckett -- Introduction -- "Clavum Clavo" -- Echo's Bones -- First Love -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Whoroscope: Samuel Beckett's Medieval Machine -- Introduction -- Beckett's Medieval Fragments -- Beckett and Descartes Among the Scholastics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources/Printed Documents -- Secondary Sources -- Lancelot and Guinevere in the Inter-War Period: The Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound's Canto vi -- Introduction -- Evelyn Waugh's Architectural Vision -- The Inter-War Guinevere in Waugh -- The Modernist Perspective in A Handful of Dust -- Time in Pound's Canto vi -- Canto vi and Religion -- The Emotional Dimension of Space in Canto vi -- Waugh's and Pound's Medievalisms -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker: The Eusa Story and Other Blipful Figgers -- Introduction -- Figura and the Four-Fold Way -- The Literal Level -- The Typological Level -- The Tropological Level -- The Anagogical Level -- Acknowledgement -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have assembled a collection of studies on Modernist authors that are original, thought-provoking and often delightful.

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