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Make It New! Modernism & the Medieval Presence. Online exhibition
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The phrase 'Make it New' is frequently used in defining a key feature of modernism – its novelty – and is often regarded as influential and foundational in the development of modernist aesthetics. Yet when Ezra Pound employed the phrase for the first time in 1928, modernism’s major works had already appeared, and decades would pass before 'Make It New' gained significance and became a catchphrase and slogan. 'Make It New' was Pound's rendering of a passage in Da Xue, a historical Chinese text. Influenced by Christian belief as well, 'Make It New' became a model of change, of renaissance and renewal, in which the new is not simply a return to the old. Drawing on the work of those who have gone before, Making It New is a process of historical recycling, quotation, and re-arrangement.
In this exhibition, you will see examples of modernist writers Making It New, and it focuses on modernists who re-inscribe medieval elements, including medieval forms, themes, and narratives. It highlights the holdings of the University of Otago Libraries, in particular the treasures of the Charles Brasch collection. Please enjoy.
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Various collectors
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James Joyce uses classical mythology as a framework for <em>Ulysses</em>. He transposes characters and episodes from Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em> to Dublin on 16 June 1904. Homer’s heroic central characters, Odysseus/Ulysses, Penelope, and Telemachus, become the more ordinary, less heroic Leopold and Molly Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Homer’s ever-changing Mediterranean setting is replaced by the squalor and monotony of modern Dublin. While writing the novel, Joyce gave the chapters classical titles (Nestor, Proteus, Cyclops, etc.), but he cut these before the text was published.
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James Joyce
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Paris: Shakespeare and Company
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May 1927
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Brasch PR6019 O9 U422
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Ulysses
James Joyce
Modernism
Ulysses
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Make It New! Modernism & the Medieval Presence. Online exhibition
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An account of the resource
The phrase 'Make it New' is frequently used in defining a key feature of modernism – its novelty – and is often regarded as influential and foundational in the development of modernist aesthetics. Yet when Ezra Pound employed the phrase for the first time in 1928, modernism’s major works had already appeared, and decades would pass before 'Make It New' gained significance and became a catchphrase and slogan. 'Make It New' was Pound's rendering of a passage in Da Xue, a historical Chinese text. Influenced by Christian belief as well, 'Make It New' became a model of change, of renaissance and renewal, in which the new is not simply a return to the old. Drawing on the work of those who have gone before, Making It New is a process of historical recycling, quotation, and re-arrangement.
In this exhibition, you will see examples of modernist writers Making It New, and it focuses on modernists who re-inscribe medieval elements, including medieval forms, themes, and narratives. It highlights the holdings of the University of Otago Libraries, in particular the treasures of the Charles Brasch collection. Please enjoy.
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Various collectors
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This volume of selections from<em> Ulysses</em> was published by Pear Tree Press, a private press established in 1988 by Tara McLeod. Pear Tree Press publishes limited edition hand-printed letterpress books and prints. The Special Collections’ copy of<em> Ithaca</em> is no. 15 of 20. It is opened to a list of subjects Bloom and Stephen deliberate, including the Roman Catholic Church and Jesuit education.
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James Joyce
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Auckland: Pear Tree Press
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1997
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Special Collections PR6019 O9 U42 1997
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Ithaca: Selections from The Odyssey, Ulysses
James Joyce
Modernism
Ulysses
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Maths, Politics & Concrete: The Legacy of the Classical World. Online exhibition
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The classicist Richard Hingley wrote ‘the Classical past retains a highly significant relationship to the present’. It is true that no cultural tradition develops in a vacuum and we are all influenced by those who have gone before us. The exhibition Maths, Politics and Concrete: The Legacy of the Classical World aims to highlight some of the influences that the ancient Greeks and Romans have had on western civilisation. Mathematics, democracy, medicine, literature, philosophy, law, architecture and engineering are just some of the areas where western cultural heritage owes much to classical Greece and Rome.
With the reintroduction of many ancient texts to Renaissance Europe, Classical Studies enjoyed a resurgence in the 14th century and consequently, in the 18th and 19th centuries it became central to, what was thought to be, a ‘good’ education. The latter part of the 20th century saw a decline in classical studies as part of mainstream education. Now, however, more than ever before, we have more resources and technology available that enable us to study and appreciate the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans and remind ourselves of some of our cultural roots.
From Homer’s Odyssey and the nascent secular intellectualism of the early Greek philosophers, to the recipe for concrete and the perfection of archway construction, the Classical World has left a legacy which we now take for granted. The exhibition features works by, among others, Ovid, Apollonius, Archimedes, Xenophon and Marcus Aurelius – names not necessarily familiar to all but ones which have definitely shaped the past and are still very important today. Please enjoy yourself as you view volumes from Special Collections and take time to discover how the ancient world has impacted on yours.
*Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners of the images displayed in this online exhibition. If any issues arise from their display, please contact Special Collections, University of Otago, special.collections@otago.ac.nz
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Various collectors
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Renowned for being a ‘difficult read’, James Joyce’s <em>Ulysses</em> was first published in its entirety in 1922. Joyce (1882-1941) was born and educated in Dublin but lived most of his adult life in continental Europe with his wife, Nora Barnacle. Joyce first experienced the hero Odysseus, from Homer’s epic poem, <em>The Odyssey</em>, as a child and came to regard him as an ‘all-round character’. Much of Homer’s epic is mirrored by Joyce in the novel in terms of its characters, events, and themes, and its episodic structure.<em> Ulysses</em> is considered by some scholars to be one of the greatest and most influential novels of the early twentieth century.
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James Joyce
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London: Picador
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1997
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Special Collections PR6019 O9 U422 1997. (<em>Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners of the images displayed in this online exhibition. If any issues arise from their display, please contact Special Collections, University of Otago, special.collections@otago.ac.nz</em>)
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Ulysses
James Joyce
The Odyssey
Ulysses
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41 Stunning Books: A selection of modern private press books. Online exhibition
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The private press books on show are all hand-crafted: printed on fine paper, bound individually, limited in issue number, and almost all contain fine illustrative matter, usually wood-cuts or engravings. With such superb productions, it is inevitable that a number of well-known illustrators were commissioned to illustrate these books. Such artists include Eric Gill, Blair Hughes-Stanton, and the Dunedin-born John Buckland Wright. Presses featured include the Kelmscott Press, founded by William Morris, the "Father of the Arts and Craft Movement", the Doves Press, and Lucien Pissarro's Eragny Press, to the Welsh Gregynog Press, the Ashendene Press, and local New Zealand operations such as Caxton Press and The Pear Tree Press. Notable items on display include The Tale of King Coustans (1894), an original Kelmscott production, a Rampant Lion Press printing of Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1984), Robert Louis Stevenson's Prayers (1999), a 1993 spread featuring Rimbaud's poem Voyelles (Vowels), Judith Haswell's painstaking three year production of Potsherds and Geraniums (1988-91), and Alan Loney's experimental Dawn/Water (1979) and Squeezing the Bones (1983).
This exhibition was opened on 24 June 2004.
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Ithaca
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Ithaca : selections from the Odyssey, Ulysses
Ulysses. Selections. 1997
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Fine books
Private press books
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Printing
Private presses
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With a number of blocks, and wooden and metal types at his disposal, Tara McLeod, owner-operator of The Pear Tree Press, Auckland, playfully re-constructed excerpts from James Joyce’s Ulysses. McLeod also binds the books he prints and does the illustrations, in this case a woodcut of Irishman Joyce. McLeod is regarded by many as the best limited edition book maker in the country and his works are now becoming collectible. This edition, of which this is no.15 of 20, has sold out.
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Joyce, James
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Pear Tree Press : Auckland
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1997
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McLeod, Tara
Pear Tree Press (Auckland, N.Z.)
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Illustrations
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PR6019.O9 U42 1997 [Special Collections Oversize]
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