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The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry
- From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott
Engelsk Paperback
The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry
- From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott
Engelsk Paperback

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The hero s descent into the Underworld is not only one of the oldest stories in western literature; it is also one of the most often retold. Why do so many modern poets - British and American, black and white, male and female, from the metropole and from the margins - stage Underworld descents in their works? Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative. While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural critique, most recent poets, including James Merrill, Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison, and Seamus Heaney, have found the Underworld descent to be a useful framework for addressing the claims of history and politics.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9781349382835
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1349382833
Udg. Dato:
29 jan 2010
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
216mm
Forlag:
Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
29 jan 2010
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