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

Title
  1. The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon / Joe Moffett.
Published by
  1. Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007.
Author
  1. Moffett, Joe.

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Description
  1. viii, 178 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Grahn, Judy, 1940- > Criticism and interpretation
  2. Walcott, Derek > Criticism and interpretation
  3. Hill, Geoffrey > Criticism and interpretation
  4. Epic poetry, American > History and criticism
  5. American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  6. Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
  7. Modernism (Literature) > United States
  8. Literary form > History > 20th century
Contents
  1. "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
  1. JFE 07-5271
Thesis (note)
  1. Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
Author
  1. Moffett, Joe.
Title
  1. The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon / Joe Moffett.
Imprint
  1. Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007.
Edition
  1. 1st ed.
Thesis
  1. Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2007924807
ISBN
  1. 9781933202129
  2. 1933202122
Research call number
  1. JFE 07-5271
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