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The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon
- Title
- The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon / Joe Moffett.
- Author
- Moffett, Joe.
- Publication
- Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 178 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Walcott, Derek > Criticism and interpretation
- Epic poetry, American > History and criticism
- Hill, Geoffrey > Criticism and interpretation
- Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
- Literary form > History > 20th century
- Modernism (Literature) > United States
- Grahn, Judy, 1940- > Criticism and interpretation
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Thesis (note)
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
- Contents
- "Returning to the origin and bringing something back" in the twentieth-century long poem -- Charles Olson's The Maximus poems and Armand Schwerner's The tablets : from late modernist to postmodernist long poem -- "Master, I was the freshest of all your readers": postcolonialism and postmodern self-reflexivity in Derek Walcott's Omeros -- Narrating the origins of the nation: Geoffrey Hill's Mercian hymns and "an apology for the revival of Christian architecture in England" -- "A new myth of origin": Judy Grahn's A chronicle of queens and popular culture -- Conclusion: origins and the modem/postmodern divide.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-5271
- ISBN
- 9781933202129
- 1933202122
- LCCN
- 2007924807
- OCLC
- 135042500
- Author
- Moffett, Joe.
- Title
- The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon / Joe Moffett.
- Imprint
- Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Thesis
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-5271