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Author Henriksen, Line.

Title Ambition and anxiety : Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as twentieth-century epics / Line Henriksen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 342 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 88
Cross/cultures ; 88. 0924-1426
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Homer and Genre; 2. Dante and Christian Epic; 3. Epic Anxiety and Imperialistic Epic; 4. Metonymic Epic; 5. Caribbean Epic; 6. Metaphoric Epic; Works Cited; Index.
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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Subject Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos.
Walcott, Derek. Omeros.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos.
Walcott, Derek. Omeros.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Cantos.
Walcott, Derek. Omeros.
Cantos (Pound, Ezra)
Omeros (Walcott, Derek)
Epic poetry.
Epic poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Henriksen, Line. Ambition and anxiety. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006 9789042021495 9042021497 (OCoLC)122935806
ISBN 9781429480758 (electronic book)
1429480750 (electronic book)
9789401203968
9401203962
9789042021495 (hardbound)
9042021497 (hardbound)