Derek Walcott's encounter with Homer : landscape, history, and poetic voice in Omeros / Rachel D. Friedman.

'Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer' puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walcott's use of the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepeni...

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Main Author: Friedman, Rachel D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Classical presences.
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520 8 |a 'Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer' puts Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of both. Rachel Friedman examines Walcott's use of the Homeric persona of Omeros to explore his own deepening relationship with his craft and his identity as a Caribbean poet. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Series Page -- Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer: Landscape, History, and Poetic Voice in Omeros -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Poetics of Simultaneity -- Walcott and Oral Composition -- Reading on a Diagonal -- "Master, I was the freshest of all your readers" -- Themes and Chapter Summaries -- Part I: Odysseys -- 1: An Odyssean Poem -- The Poet of the Sea -- Walcott's Odysseus -- "a sail leaving harbour and a sail coming in" -- The Structures of Omeros and the Odyssey -- 2: Roots and Routes -- The Terraqueous Island 
505 8 |a Odysseus after the Odyssey -- Land and Sea in Homer -- Walcott's The Odyssey: A Stage Version -- Omeros: From Tree to Canoe -- Part II: The Islanders -- 3: Achille -- The Death of Hector -- Africa and the Inland Journey -- The Tribe's Triumphal Sorrow -- Founding Home -- 4: Philoctete -- Philoctete and Philoctetes -- Philoctete's Garden -- Alcinous's Gardens -- Laertes's Orchard -- Ma Kilman's Grove -- 5: Plunkett -- Pig Farming -- Eumaeus the Swineherd -- Circean History -- Maud -- Part III: The Poet -- 6: The Tribal Poet -- The Tribal Poet -- Autobiography and Epic -- Catherine Weldon 
505 8 |a H/omeric Encounters -- 7: Homeric Shadow, H/omeric Light -- Homecoming -- Homeric Shadow, H/omeric Light -- Omeros -- Soufriére -- "an epic where every line was erased . . ." -- References -- Index of Homeric Passages -- Index of Walcott Citations -- General Index 
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