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. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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) |
|