Ambition and anxiety : Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as twentieth-century epics /
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 defi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2006
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 these language poles. The notion of 'epic ambition' re. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 342 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429480758 1429480750 9789401203968 9401203962 |
| ISSN: | 0924-1426 ; |
| Language: | English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Action Note: | digitized |
