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The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon / Joe Moffett.

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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Description
viii, 178 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Grahn, Judy, 1940- > Criticism and interpretation
  • Walcott, Derek > Criticism and interpretation
  • Hill, Geoffrey > Criticism and interpretation
  • Geschichte 1960-2000
  • 1900-1999
  • Epic poetry, American > History and criticism
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
  • Literary form > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Academic theses
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Thesis (note)
  • Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781933202129
  • 1933202122
LCCN
^^2007924807
OCLC
135042500
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library