Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: This essay discusses the question of modernism/s by taking into account different modes of the literary reception of classical antiquity. The focus is the American writer H. D., whose notion of classicism is based on Walter Pater’s »Alexandrian« Hellenism, which itself concentrates on occultism, hermeticism and pagan mysteries. As a result, her notion differs considerably from the modern classicism of her male colleagues. For H. D., Euripides’ Greek words are portals to the vision, lost knowledge and experience which allow the rigid, institutionalized and consequently dead knowledge of the bourgeois curriculum to be reshaped into a living, topical one. Her transformation of Euripides’ Hippolytus-play re-energizes the mythological story by concentrating on the hidden psychic layers of human existence and thus presents a ›hot‹ antiquity.
Source: Feministische Studien
DOI: 10.1515/fs-2004-0208
Author: Gabriele Rippl
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2397832287