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

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Moffett, Joe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hill, Geoffrey.

Walcott, Derek.

Grahn, Judy, 1940-.

Epic poetry, American--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, American.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Literary form--History--20th century.

Literary form.

History.

Grahn, Judy, 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Grahn, Judy.

Walcott, Derek--Criticism and interpretation.

Hill, Geoffrey--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007.

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.

Notes:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index.

ISBN:

9781933202129

1933202122

OCLC:

135042500