"At Least I Have the Flowers of Myself"Revisionist Myth-Making in H.D.'s "Eurydice"

  1. Cristina Salcedo González 1
  1. 1 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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    Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Madrid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01cby8j38

Aldizkaria:
Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies

ISSN: 1137-6368

Argitalpen urtea: 2020

Zenbakia: 62

Orrialdeak: 69-89

Mota: Artikulua

DOI: 10.26754/OJS_MISC/MJ.20205152 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openSarbide irekia editor

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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.