Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic

Simone Celine Marshall, PhD (2005), University of Sydney, is Senior Lecturer in English and Linguistics at the University of Otago. She recently published ‘Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the Medieval Mystical Tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius,’ Literature & Aesthetics 27.1 (2017), 153-170.Carole M. Cusack, PhD (1996), University of Sydney, is Professor of Religious Studies at that university. She has published monographs including Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith (2010) and The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations (2011).

• ForewordNotes on ContributorsIntroductionSimone Celine Marshall and Carole M. CusackWagner's Parsifal: Christianity, Celibacy, and Medieval Brotherhood as Ideal in ModernityCarole M. CusackFergus Mac Róich: Yeats' Damaged MysticJoseph A. MendesEzra Pound's Medieval Classicism: The Spirit of Romance and the Debt to PhilologyJonathan UllyotMarcel Proust on Erotic Dreams and Oneiric KnowledgeGro Bjørnerud MoThe Aristotelian Crescent: Medieval Arabic Philosophy in the Poetics of Ezra PoundMark ByronBetween the "Machinery of Transcendence" and the "Machinery of War": The Unattended Moments of Eugene IonescoOctavian Saiu"Melancholy Matters": Robert Burton and Samuel BeckettRina KimWhoroscope: Samuel Beckett's Medieval MachineHolly PhillipsLancelot and Guinevere in the Inter-War Period: The Medievalisms of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust and Ezra Pound's Canto viAnna CzarnowusRussell Hoban's Riddley Walker: The Eusa Story and Other Blipful FiggersChris AckerleyIndex

"Cusack and Marshall’s collection is a very useful one that will help provide scholarly discussion on the topic of modernism by reinforcing the idea that modernist aesthetics reach just as much into the ancient past as they do into the future." - Kristen Marangoni, Tulsa Community College, in: Literature & Aesthetics 19 (1), 2019