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050 00 $aPR605.O85$bT49 2009
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100 1 $aThurston, Michael,$d1965-
245 14 $aThe underworld in twentieth-century poetry :$bfrom Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott /$cMichael Thurston.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2009.
300 $ax, 216 p. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDeclarations of interdependence : the necromantic confrontation with tradition -- Katabasis as cultural critique -- In Nekuia begins responsibility : "Little Gidding" and the postwar necromantic tradition -- James Merrill's "Book of Ephraim" -- Derek Walcott's Omeros -- Tony Harrison's V -- Seamus Heaney's "Station Island".
520 1 $a"The hero's descent into the Underworld is not only one of the oldest stories in western literature, it is also one of the most often retold. Why do so many modern poets - British and American, black and white, male and female, from the metropole and from the margins - stage Underworld descents in their work? Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative. While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural critique, most recent poets, including James Merrill, Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison, and Seamus Heaney, have found the Underworld descent to be a useful framework for addressing the claims of history and politics."--Jacket.
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aVoyages to the otherworld in literature.
650 0 $aHell in literature.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
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