LEADER 03421nam 22006012 450 001 9910778155203321 005 20230829000622.0 010 $a94-012-0396-2 010 $a1-4294-8075-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401203968 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475335 035 $a(EBL)556821 035 $a(OCoLC)714567424 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101808 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11989944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101808 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10043331 035 $a(PQKB)10418915 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556821 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556821 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380570 035 $a(OCoLC)164320304 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401203968 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475335 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmbition and Anxiety $eEzra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics /$fLine Henriksen 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 225 1 $aCross/Cultures ;$v88 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2149-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Homer and Genre -- 2. Dante and Christian Epic -- 3. Epic Anxiety and Imperialistic Epic -- 4. Metonymic Epic -- 5. Caribbean Epic -- 6. Metaphoric Epic -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aThis comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of these language poles. The notion of 'epic ambition' refers to the poetic prestige attached to the epic genre, whereas the (non-Bloomian) 'anxiety' occurs when the poet faces not only the risk that his project might fail, but especially the moral implications of that ambition and the fear that it might prove presumptuous. The drafts of Walcott's Omeros are here examined for the first time, and attention is also devoted to Pound's creative procedures as illustrated by the drafts of the Cantos. Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros , and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement. 410 0$aCross/Cultures ;$v88. 517 3 $aEzra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth-Century Epics 606 $aEpic poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEpic poetry 615 0$aEpic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEpic poetry. 676 $a811/.5 700 $aHenriksen$b Line$01566359 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778155203321 996 $aAmbition and Anxiety$93836800 997 $aUNINA