«At Least I Have the Flowers of Myself»: Revisionist Myth-Making in H.D.’S «Eurydice»
ABSTRACT: Taking its cue from the rediscovery of H.D.’s works initiated in the 1980s, this article aims to advance the efforts destined to recover the modernist poet’s revisionist legacy and, in particular, her revisionary myth-making. To this end, adopting a myth-criticism interpretative approach,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/109809 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/109809 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 821.111(73)H. D.2poe.07 82-1:2‑264 Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Poetry Myth-criticism Re-writing Mythology Poesía Mitocrítica Reescritura Mitología Filología inglesa Escritores Literatura 62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras 5505.10 Filología |
| Sumario: | ABSTRACT: Taking its cue from the rediscovery of H.D.’s works initiated in the 1980s, this article aims to advance the efforts destined to recover the modernist poet’s revisionist legacy and, in particular, her revisionary myth-making. To this end, adopting a myth-criticism interpretative approach, I will analyse one of the most relevant examples of H.D.’s work in this respect: her lyric poem “Eurydice” (1925). In particular, I will examine H.D.’s ‘tactics of revisionary mythopoesis’, that is, narrative strategies which distance her poem from the dominant account of the myth and that enable the poet to contest the established classical tradition. The examination will ultimately bring to the surface H.D.’s invaluable contribution to the re-shaping and re-writing of myth from a female perspective and the way in which she created a different, subverted, version of the classical account. |
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