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Author:
McKinsey, Martin. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96009927
Title:
Hellenism and the postcolonial imagination : Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott / Martin McKinsey.
Publisher:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject:
Commonwealth poetry (English)--History and criticism.
Hellenism in literature.
Yeats, W. B.--(William Butler),--1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
Cavafy, Constantine,--1863-1933--Criticism and interpretation.
Walcott, Derek--Criticism and interpretation.
English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Beyond Phraata: an introduction -- Ulysses Victorianus -- Homeric twilights -- Classicism and Anglo-Irish retrenchment -- The humbling of Ulysses: Cavafy and kenosis -- Looking for the barbarians -- In the metropole of language -- Chiasmus and the cantos -- "History was here" -- Black Greeks -- Correcting his name -- Missing sounds and mutable meanings -- Beyond empire and nation: an envoi -- Appendix A: "The end of Odysseus" (1894) -- Appendix B: Poems of Cavafy.
ISBN:
0838642012
9780838642016
OCLC:
(OCoLC)465190280
LCCN:
2009045851
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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