Cargando…
The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane /
First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western ''canon''. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Somerset, N.J. :
Athlone Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers,
2000.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western ''canon''. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a ''West India Georgic'', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire. This. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847143822 9781847143822 1281291781 9781281291783 9786611291785 6611291784 |