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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Africa --- Europe --- Yeats, William B. --- English literature --- Yeats, William Butler --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- POLITIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- PENSSE POLITIQUE ET SOCIALE
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Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Ireland --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- JOYCE (JAMES), 1882-1941 --- POESIE ANGLAISE --- POESIE IRLANDAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- IRLANDE --- INFLUENCE --- AUTEURS IRLANDAIS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- 20E SIECLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE
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Wilde, Oscar --- Joyce, James --- Yeats, William Butler --- Beckett, Samuel --- JOYCE (JAMES), 1882-1941 --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- BECKETT (SAMUEL), 1906-1989 --- ENGLISH LITERATURE --- IRISH WRITERS --- WILDE (OSCAR), 1854-1900 --- IRELAND
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This book follows the careers of three major poets of the European and North American periphery as they engage one of the master tropes of Western civilization. As colonial subjects, they inherited an Anglicized version of Hellenism whose borders might easily have excluded them as civilizational "others." The book describes the diverse strategies they used -- from Bloomian kenosis to Afro-Caribbean "signifyin(g)" -- to make Hellenism their own. Their use of Greek material, the book argues, is closely tied to their need as members of colonial minorities -- Irish Protestant, Greek-Egyptian, and "part-white and Methodist" -- to define themselves against mainstream metropolitan culture on the one hand, and nationalist constructions of the post-colonial homeland on the other. Their Hellenisms participate in the dialectic of local and global, as the poets at once indigenize the Universal Greek, and re-deploy him to hybridize national culture. The result is a triangulated dynamic that challenges established notions of the post-colonial. Among works discussed are Tennyson's "Ulysses," Yeats's "No Second Troy," C.P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians," and Walcott's Omeros.
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In recent decades, much of the most vital literature written in English has come from the former colonies of Great Britain. But while post-colonial novelists such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul have been widely celebrated, the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. In "The Hybrid Muse", Jahan Ramazani argues that postcolonial poets have also dramatically expanded the atlas of literature in English, infusing modern and contemporary poetry with indigenous metaphors, rhythms and creoles. A rich and vibrant poetry, he contends, has issued from the hybridization of the English muse with the long resident muses of Africa, India and the Caribbean. Starting with the complex case of Ireland, Ramazani closely analyzes the work of leading postcolonial poets and explores key questions about the relationship between poetry and postcolonialism. As inheritors of both imperial and native cultures, poets such as W.B. Yeats, Derek Walcott, Louise Bennett, A.K. Ramanujan and Okot p'Bitek invent compelling new forms to ariculate the tensions and ambiguities of their cultural in-betweeness. They forge hybrid figures, vocabularies and genres that embody the postcolonial condition. Engaging an array of critical topics, from the aesthetics of irony and metaphor to the politics of nationalism and anthropology, Ramazani reconceptualizes issues central to our understanding of both postcolonial literatures and 20th-century poetry. The first book of its kind, "The Hybrid Muse" should help internationalize the study of poetry, and in turn, strengthen the place of poetry in postcolonial studies.
Poetry --- English literature --- British Commonwealth --- Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) --- Walcott, Derek (1930-....) --- Ramanujan, Attippat Krishnaswami (1929-1993) --- Bennett, Louise (1919-....) --- p'Bitek, Okot (1931-1982) --- Poésie anglophone --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Décolonisation --- Critique et interprétation --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature
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English poetry --- Poésie anglaise --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Eliot, T. S. --- Pound, Ezra, --- Yeats, William Butler, --- Poésie anglaise --- Yeats, W. B. --- POESIE ANGLAISE --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS, DIT T.S.), 1888-1965 --- POUND (EZRA LOOMIS), 1885-1972 --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE
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AMERICAN POETRY --- LAWRENCE (DAVID HERBERT), 1885-1930 --- CRANE (HART) --- YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER), 1865-1939 --- JAMES (HENRY), 1843-1916 --- CUMMINGS (EDWARD ESTLIN), 1894-1962 --- ELIOT (THOMAS STEARNS, DIT T.S.), 1888-1965 --- MOORE (MARIANNE), 1887-1972 --- POUND (EZRA LOOMIS), 1885-1972 --- 20th CENTURY