Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-century EpicsRodopi, 2006 - Broj stranica: 342 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' refers to the poetic prestige attached to the epic genre, whereas the (non-Bloomian) 'anxiety' occurs when the poet faces not only the risk that his project might fail, but especially the moral implications of that ambition and the fear that it might prove presumptuous. The drafts of Walcott's Omeros are here examined for the first time, and attention is also devoted to Pound's creative procedures as illustrated by the drafts of the Cantos. Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement. |
Sadržaj
Dante and Christian Epic | 49 |
Epic Anxiety and Imperialistic Epic | 105 |
4 | 144 |
Metonymic Epic | 185 |
5 | 231 |
6 | 263 |
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Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound’s Cantos and Derek Walcott’s Omeros as ... Line Henriksen Ograničeni pregled - 2006 |
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Achille Achille's Actaeon Aeneas Aeneid aoidos argues associated authority Bakhtin becomes Cangrande Caribbean Caribbean English claim Commedia copula craft Dante Dante's Dantean defines deixis Derek Walcott diegesis discourse Divus ego scriptor elements Eliot Empire English epic epic ambition epic genre Essays explicit Ezra Pound Faber & Faber Fascism Fitzgerald Fitzgerald's translation focus formulaic Genette Greek Heaney Heaney's Helen Homeric poems identify Iliad Imagist Ityn Jakobson journey Kenner language lineage literary Literature London metaphor metonymy mimesis moan modern Murray Nagy Nänny narration narrative noun novelisation Odysseus Omeros oral Oxford Paradise parallel passage Philoctete phrase pilgrim Pisan Cantos poem's poet poet's poetic poetry political presents pronoun prose Quint quotation marks reader reading reference rewriting rhapsode rhyme Skafte Jensen song speaker speech Station Island suggests Svenbro synecdoche T.S. Eliot term tion topos tradition Trojans veltro verb verse Virgil Virgilian voice Walcott's Walcott's Omeros words writing York
Reference za ovu knjigu
Interpreting Studies and Beyond: A Tribute to Miriam Shlesinger Franz Pöchhacker,Arnt Lykke Jakobsen,Inger M. Mees Pregled nije dostupan - 2007 |