Omeros

Author : Robert D. Hamner
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826211521
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epic of the Dispossessed written by Robert D. Hamner and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamner describes Omeros as an epic of the dispossessed because each of its protagonists is a castaway in one sense or another. Regardless of whether their ancestry is traced to the classical Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, or confined to the Americas, they are transplanted individuals whose separate quests all center on the fundamental human need to strike roots in a place where one belongs.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374225915
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Omeros written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-08-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.

Author : Maria McGarrity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813061009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Allusions in Omeros written by Maria McGarrity and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omeros is considered the masterwork of Caribbean-born poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. McGarrity, an expert on Joyce and Caribbean literature, has written a definitive and needed high-quality reading guide for this important piece of postcolonial Caribbean literature.

Author : Rahman Mostafiz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304935531
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walcott's Omeros: Revitalization of Wounded Caribbeans written by Rahman Mostafiz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410335100
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's Omeros written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Line Henriksen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021497
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambition and Anxiety written by Line Henriksen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 their language poles." "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." --Book Jacket.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880481
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiepolo's Hound written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart "Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound; my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write, paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found its image again, a hound in astounding light." Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris--and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover a detail--"a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound"--of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire. Published with twenty-five full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880511
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Egrets written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language. White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century—a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and—perhaps most surprisingly—getting older.

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880325
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bounty written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Walcott's book The Bounty opens with the title poem, a memorable elegy to his mother. It also contains a haunting series of poems evoking the poet's native ground, the island of St. Lucia. The power and beauty of Walcott's lyric gift have never been more fully in evidence.

Author : Catherine Bates
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828274
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Epic written by Catherine Bates and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.