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Ambition and Anxiety

Ezra Pound's <i>Cantos</i>and Derek Walcott's <i>Omeros</i>as Twentieth-Century Epics

Ambition and Anxiety( )
Author: Henriksen, Line
Series title:Cross/Cultures Ser.
ISBN:978-90-420-2149-5
Publication Date:Jan 2006
Publisher:BRILL
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $132.00
Book Description:

This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omerosand Ezra Pound's Cantosthrough Dante's Divina Commediato 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...
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Book Details
Pages:342
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.624 x 0.897 x 0.367 Inches
Book Weight:1.617 Pounds



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