| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) |
| Series |
Cross/cultures ; 108 |
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Cross/cultures ; 108
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| Contents |
The poetry of pragmatic imagination: the circuitous influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ex-centric manners: Walcott and Nabokov's new paradigm for the writer of the twenty-first century -- The Escher-effect in the double narrative of an artist's Bildung: Walcott's autobiography in verse -- The quest of the poet-knight: Walcott's revision of the Arthurian matter -- The fulfilment of the aesthetic of light in the achievement of the metaphor of light |
| Summary |
This first extended study of Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (2000) defines the book as the culmination of the poetry and poetic of the Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner. In this long poem, Walcott achieves three goals pursued throughout his career: to develop an original Caribbean aesthetic; to meld the modes of poetry and prose; and to formulate the Bildung of the island-artist in terms of an 'autobiographical' narrative. The analysis provides an aesthetic and cultural evaluation of the poem, in terms both of the Western poetic tradition to which it refers through its rich intertextual |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation
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Walcott, Derek. Tiepolo's hound
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| SUBJECT |
Walcott, Derek fast |
| Subject |
POETRY -- American -- General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789042026391 |
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9042026391 |
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1282505165 |
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9781282505162 |
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9786612505164 |
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6612505168 |
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