Literature, Modernism and Myth - Bell, Michael; Michael, Bell
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The use of myth in Modernist literature is a misleadingly familiar theme. Joyce's appropriation of Homer's Odyssey and Eliot's of Frazer's Golden Bough are, like Lawrence's primitivism or Yeats's nationalist folklore, attempts to discover an underlying metaphysic in an increasingly fragmented world. In Literature, Modernism and Myth Michael Bell also examines the relationship of myth and modernism to postmodernism. Myth, Bell shows, is inherently flexible; it was used to justify Pound's totalising vision of society which eventually descended into fascism, and the liberal, ironic vision of…mehr

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The use of myth in Modernist literature is a misleadingly familiar theme. Joyce's appropriation of Homer's Odyssey and Eliot's of Frazer's Golden Bough are, like Lawrence's primitivism or Yeats's nationalist folklore, attempts to discover an underlying metaphysic in an increasingly fragmented world. In Literature, Modernism and Myth Michael Bell also examines the relationship of myth and modernism to postmodernism. Myth, Bell shows, is inherently flexible; it was used to justify Pound's totalising vision of society which eventually descended into fascism, and the liberal, ironic vision of human existence Joyce and Mann expressed. Those theorists who present myth as another form of mystification, a search for false origins, ignore its use by modernists to emphasise the ultimate contingency of all values. This anti-foundational element, Bell claims, enables myth to act as a corrective to the claims of ideological critique. Bell shows how postmodern concerns with political and social responsibility, and the role literature plays in formulating this, have in fact been inherited from modernism.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Myth in the Age of the World View; 2. Varieties of modernist mythopoeia; 3. Countercases: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound; 4. The politics of modernist mythopoeia; 5. The break-up of modernist mythopoeia; 6. Living with myth: Cervantes and the New World; 7. Living without myth: deconstructing the old world; Conclusion: ideology, myth and criticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Modernist literature discovered through myth an underlying metaphysic to an increasingly fragmented world. Michael Bell's study shows how modernists also used myth to emphasise the contingency of all values. This anti-foundational element, Bell claims, enables myth to act as a corrective to the political claims of ideological critique.

A study of the use of myth by modernists, and its relationship to contemporary notions of postmodernity.
Autorenporträt
The author, Michael A. Bell graduated from Hillcrest High School in Memphis, Tennessee. He immediately joined the military, and served four years in the U.S. Army. He is the oldest of four children by the late Dr. Jewell Bell Jr. and his mother died this year of 2021. Michael attended the Memphis School Of Preaching, where he and his wife Ruby studied the word of GOD. They both enjoy teaching children in Sunday school, and are involved in the ministry of visiting the sick, the elderly, and shut-in. Presently, they reside in Bartlett, Tennessee. Occasionally, Michael preaches the word of GOD whenever, and wherever the LORD leads.