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UNISA996215636203316 |
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Autore |
Greenwood Emily |
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Titolo |
Afro-Greeks [[electronic resource] ] : dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century / / Emily Greenwood |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-30712-X |
9786613307125 |
0-19-157347-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Caribbean literature (English) - History and criticism |
Caribbean literature (English) - Greek influences |
Caribbean literature (English) - Classical influences |
Mythology, Greek, in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Goodbye to Hellas""; ""Overview of Chapters""; ""1 An Accidental Homer: Accidents of Homeric Reception in the Modern Caribbean""; ""Patrick Leigh Fermor�s The Traveller�s Tree""; ""Towards a New World Odyssey""; ""Foreign Lines of Verse: Walcott�s Dialogue with Modern Greece""; ""2 Classics as School of Empire""; ""Classics and the Educational Elite""; ""Contesting the Curriculum""; ""Afro-Romans and Imperial Redistribution""; ""C. L. R. James: Finding one�s Own Way in Classics""; ""Conclusion"" |
""3 Translatio studii et imperii: The Manipulation of Latin in Modern Caribbean Literature""""Translating Latin Badly""; ""Latin and Sweet Talk in Austin Clarke�s The Polished Hoe (2002)""; ""The Postcolonial Virgil in V. S. Naipaul""; ""Derek Walcott: Translating Empire""; ""Conclusion""; ""4 The Athens of the Caribbean: Trinidadian Models of Athenian Democracy""; ""Athens in Trinidad I: C. L. R. James""; ""Athens in Trinidad II: Eric Williams""; ""Conclusion""; ""5 Caribbean Classics and the Postcolonial Canon""; ""The Unstable Canon: A Tale of Two Helens"" |
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