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

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. Geschichte 1960-2000
  5. 1900-1999
  6. Epic poetry, American > History and criticism
  7. American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  8. Postmodernism (Literature) > United States
  9. Modernism (Literature) > United States
  10. Literary form > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. Academic theses
  2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  3. History
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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Thesis (note)
  1. Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain