David Jones and RomePub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0002
Jasmine Hunter Evans
{"title":"Shaping Rome through ‘Contactual’ Experience","authors":"Jasmine Hunter Evans","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 addresses Jones’s reception of the Roman Empire, which was marked indelibly by his personal experience of war and his growing disillusionment with the British Empire. Charting the transition from patriotic fervour—which drove him to enlist as a private in the First World War—through to post-war frustration with British imperialism and propaganda, provides the necessary context to examine the form, language and political ideology which underpin his early Roman poetry and visual artworks. This chapter explores the development of Jones’s vision of Rome across the period he was writing In Parenthesis (1937) and through his presentation of the experience of the ordinary soldier. In his poetry, Roman legionaries are also British Tommies, and their common humanity becomes the transhistorical unifier of all armies. It concludes by contextualising Jones’s creative approach to merging past and present within wider twentieth-century literary movements that were refashioning the relationship between ancient Rome and modern Britain.","PeriodicalId":201769,"journal":{"name":"David Jones and Rome","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134517076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Jones and RomePub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0003
Jasmine Hunter Evans
{"title":"British Imperial Rhetoric","authors":"Jasmine Hunter Evans","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 is concerned with the political foundation of Jones’s Roman fragments, which stand as a challenge to British imperialism. In examining the Roman imperial analogy as it is appears in British political rhetoric across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this chapter establishes the necessary context for understanding Jones’s poetry as a subversive response to imperial values, capitalism, and propaganda. Analysing the Roman fragments in this way provides the opportunity to explore both Jones’s engagement with British imperial rhetoric and his belief in the creative potential of the Roman analogy to speak to contemporary concerns. It demonstrates the ways in which he based his criticism of modern imperialism—whether of its hypocrisy or its direct acts of force (such as in the poem ‘Isis’ (1956) which responds to the Suez crisis)—within an ancient Roman setting.","PeriodicalId":201769,"journal":{"name":"David Jones and Rome","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130941580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Jones and RomePub Date : 2022-02-03DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0005
Jasmine Hunter Evans
{"title":"Cyclical History and Roman Decline","authors":"Jasmine Hunter Evans","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868194.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 examines how Jones’s emerging philosophy of history was shaped by the cyclical historical movement which rose to prominence in the early twentieth century. Contextualising his rejection of linear progress and his belief in the fundamental similarity of cycles occurring across world history—particularly between Roman and Western decline—demonstrates the impact of this movement on Jones’s thought and art. Out of this engagement, and through his dependence on the works of Oswald Spengler and Christopher Dawson, Jones would come to reimagine time as a dynamic relationship between past and present. This chapter charts Jones’s reliance on cyclical methodologies and compares his approach to those of his literary contemporaries. It examines the complex vision of history that emerges in his poetry, in which cyclical concepts (such as, typological repetition and patterns of civilisational rise and decline) are subsumed within an ongoing teleological movement towards the end of time.","PeriodicalId":201769,"journal":{"name":"David Jones and Rome","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124095483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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