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

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Henriksen, Line

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TextSeries: Cross/cultures ; 88.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 342 pages)Content type:

text

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online resource

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9781429480758
1429480750
9789401203968
9401203962

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ambition and anxiety.DDC classification:

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PS3531.O82 C28556 2006eb

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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.

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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-312) and index.

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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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