Hellenism and the postcolonial imagination
Subtitle: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott
By: Martin McKinsey.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838642016
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. -- 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation; Cavafy, Constantine, -- 1863-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation; Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation; Commonwealth poetry (English) -- History and criticism; Hellenism in literature; English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond Phraata: an introduction; title: Ulysses Victorianus; title: Homeric twilights; title: Classicism and Anglo-Irish retrenchment; title: Humbling of Ulysses: Cavafy and kenosis; title: Looking for the barbarians; title: In the metropole of language; title: Chiasmus and the cantos; title: History was here; title: Black Greeks; title: Correcting his name; title: Missing sounds and mutable meanings; title: Beyond empire and nation: an envoi; title: Appendix A: End of Odysseus; title: Appendix B: Poems of Cavafy.