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The crowning of a poet's quest : Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's hound /
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 a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
108. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 225 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789042026391 9042026391 1282505165 9781282505162 9786612505164 6612505168 |