Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion

Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion
Title Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion PDF eBook
Author Hilda Doolittle
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 308
Release 2003
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780811215534

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H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble W.B. Yeats's Oedipus plays and Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis.

Gift

Gift
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Pages 140
Release 1824
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HERmione

HERmione
Title HERmione PDF eBook
Author Hilda Doolittle
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 256
Release 1981-11-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0811222330

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“H. D's wit, sense of rhythm, and control of language prove the inadequacy of the imagist label that is so often applied to this writer.” —Library Journal This autobiographical novel, an interior self-portrait of the poet H. D. (1886-1961) is what can best be described as a "find,' a posthumous treasure. In writing HERmione, H.D. returned to a year in her life that was "peculiarly blighted." She was in her early twenties––"a disappointment to her father, an odd duckling to her mother, an importunate, overgrown, unincarnated entity that had no place… Waves to fight against, to fight against alone…'I am Hermione Gart, a failure’––she cried in her dementia, 'l am Her, Her, Her."' She had failed at Bryn Mawr, she felt hemmed in by her family, she did not yet know what she was going to do with her life. The return from Europe of the wild-haired George Lowndes (Ezra Pound) expanded her horizons but threatened her sense of self. An intense new friendship with Fayne Rabb (Frances Josepha Gregg), an odd girl who was, if not lesbian, then certainly of bisexual bent, brought an atmosphere that made her hold on everyday reality more tenuous. This stormy course led to mental breakdown, then to a turning point and a new beginning as her own true self, as "Her”––the poet H.D. Perdita Schaffner, H.D.'s daughter, who can remember back to the time in 1927 when her mother was barricaded with her typewriter behind a locked door, working on this very novel, has provided a charming and telling introduction.

The Troubling Play of Gender

The Troubling Play of Gender
Title The Troubling Play of Gender PDF eBook
Author Maria Stadter Fox
Publisher Susquehanna University Press
Pages 226
Release 2001
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781575910352

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"Although these three modernist writers were not primarily playwrights, as expatriates they were interested in the Euripidean theme of women in exile: each independently chose to rewrite Euripides' Hippolytus, a play in which the protagonist is a woman in exile whose speech, writing, and passion are deeply problematic. Each author approaches the Euripidean material in a different way: Tsvetaeva focuses on gender in language, Yourcenar explores the gendering of a self, and H.D. performs the undoing of gendered oppositions."--BOOK JACKET.

Queering Modernist Translation

Queering Modernist Translation
Title Queering Modernist Translation PDF eBook
Author Christian Bancroft
Publisher Routledge
Pages 202
Release 2020-06-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000078116

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Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues in translation, such as gender, sexuality, diaspora, and race. Using theories espoused by Jack Halberstam, José Esteban Muñoz, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Ahmed, and Rinaldo Walcott as foundations for his arguments, Bancroft demonstrates that queering translation offers more expansive ways of imagining the relationship between translation and the identities, cultures, and societies that produce them. Intervening in new Modernist studies and translation studies, Queering Modernist Translation furthers contemporary conversations regarding Modernism and its lasting importance in the twenty-first century.

End to Torment

End to Torment
Title End to Torment PDF eBook
Author Hilda Doolittle
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 100
Release 1979
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780811207201

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They had been engaged for a period, and what began as a brief romance developed into a lifetime's friendship and collaboration in poetry. Throughout the reminiscence runs H. D's conviction that her life and Pound's had been irrevocably entwined since those early days when they had walked together in the Pennsylvania woods and he wrote for her verse after William Morris, Rossetti, Swinburne, and Chaucer. Twenty-five of these poems, handbound in vellum by Pound and called "Hilda's Book," are published here for the first time as an epilogue to this important and moving document.

The Hedgehog

The Hedgehog
Title The Hedgehog PDF eBook
Author Hilda Doolittle
Publisher New Directions Publishing
Pages 108
Release 1988
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780811210690

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Living with her mother in Switzerland during the time of World War II, Madge moves from the concerns of childhood to the edge of the more adult woes of love and loss, separation and community.