Ambition and Anxiety Ezra Pound's 'Cantos' and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' as Twentieth-Century Epics
| Author/creator | Henriksen, Line Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Kenilworth : Rodopi |
| Description | 368 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Cross/Cultures : Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation "This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of their language poles." "Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789042021495 |
| ISBN | 9042021497 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9789042021495 |
| Stock number | 00097999 |
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