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Omeros
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Author : Derek Walcott
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-09-09
Omeros written by Derek Walcott and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Poetry categories.
Derek Walcott's Omeros is a poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
Omeros
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Author : Derek Walcott
language : es
Publisher: Anagrama
Release Date : 2024-04-10
Omeros written by Derek Walcott and has been published by Anagrama this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-10 with Fiction categories.
Nos enorgullece presentar el deslumbrante poema épico Omeros, del Premio Nobel Derek Walcott, en la extraordinaria versión del poeta mexicano José Luis Rivas. Entre los diversos avatares que el aura legendaria de Homero y su obra han conocido a lo largo de la historia de las letras inglesas, acaso los dos más asombrosos sean el Ulises de Joyce y el Omeros de Walcott. Como en la Ilíada («Omeros» es el nombre de Homero «en la antigua lengua de las islas», invocado por una muchacha griega, Antígona, exiliada en América), la historia comienza con la rivalidad por el amor de una mujer. No es una princesa sino una negra criada antillana, y quienes luchan por ella no son reyes sino pescadores, pero el rostro de Helena es de aquellos en que los dioses «consagran toda la belleza de una raza». Ella ama a Aquiles pero le deja por Héctor, y un día en que el pueblo se prepara para una fiesta, el amante desdeñado zarpa de Santa Lucía, y en un sueño iniciático y un viaje a través de siglos es devuelto a la tierra de sus antepasados, en la costa occidental de África. Y mientras Aquiles va tras sus raíces, otro personaje clave de la obra, Dennis Plunkett, el blanco, el colonizador, el eterno marginal en un pueblo que ama, también cumple su personal odisea: tras sucumbir al encanto de Helena (en otro tiempo la isla se llamó como la muchacha), se convierte, por amor a ella, en un experto en la historia del lugar, así como en sus batallas. El narrador –el propio Walcott, aprendiz de brujo de Homero–, ha nacido allí pero vive en Boston, ha viajado por el mundo y vuelve para visitar a su madre viuda, y también él es arrastrado por las corrientes y contracorrientes que unen y separan a los personajes del poema, y también él queda fascinado por Helena. «Omeros se lee con tanta facilidad como una buena novela (más fácilmente, diría yo, que a Henry James), pero por el colorido y el vigor de las imágenes y la resonancia musical del lenguaje parece algo mucho mayor, un gran concerto grosso con maravillosos ritornelli, deslumbrante como jamás podría llegar a ser la mera prosa» (Frank Wilson). «Walcott no es un tradicionalista ni un vanguardista. Ninguno de los “ismos” a mano sirve para definirlo. Puede ser naturalista, expresionista, imaginista, surrealista, hermético, confesional –el nombre que se quiera–. Sucede simplemente que ha absorbido todos los estilos que el norte podía ofrecer: ahora se sostiene por su propio pie, y en gran forma. Es el mejor poeta en lengua inglesa» (Joseph Brodsky). «Walcott, como Octavio Paz, hacen que el Nobel se merezca a los premiados. Omeros es su obra maestra, por la que se le consideró uno de los más grandes poetas del idioma inglés» (Guillermo Cabrera Infante). «Ningún poeta puede competir con Walcott en humor, en profundidad, en suntuosa invención verbal, o en habilidad para expresar los pensamientos de sus personajes y obligar al lector a seguir las veloces mutaciones de ideas e imágenes en sus mentes. La fascinante historia de Omeros se despliega en una espiral, imitando al pensamiento humano y al final, y de manera sorprendente, hace que nos demos cuenta de que la historia –toda la historia–, es nuestra» (The New York Times Book Review).
A Study Guide For Derek Walcott S Omeros
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2015-09-24
A Study Guide For Derek Walcott S Omeros written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Bazaar Of Love
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Author : Paul E Losensky
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-07-15
In The Bazaar Of Love written by Paul E Losensky and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Poetry categories.
Amir Khusrau, one of the greatest poets of medieval India, helped forge a distinctive synthesis of Muslim and Hindu cultures. Written in Persian and Hindavi, his poems and ghazals were appreciated across a cosmopolitan Persianate world that stretched from Turkey to Bengal. Having thrived for centuries, Khusrau’s poetry continues to be read and recited to this day. In the Bazaar of Love is the first comprehensive selection of Khusrau’s work, offering new translations of mystical and romantic poems and fresh renditions of old favourites. Covering a wide range of genres and forms, it evokes the magic of one of the best-loved poets of the Indian subcontinent.
Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays
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Author : Derek Walcott
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-09-09
Dream On Monkey Mountain And Other Plays written by Derek Walcott and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-09 with Drama categories.
On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece." Three of Derek's Walcott's most popular short plays are also included in this volume: Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain; and The Sea at Dauphin. In an expansive introductory essay, "What the Twilight Says," the playwright explains his founding of the seminal dramatic company where these works were first performed, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. First published in 1970, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays is an essential part of Walcott's vast and important body of work.
Nonlinear Temporality In Joyce And Walcott
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Author : Sean Seeger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-22
Nonlinear Temporality In Joyce And Walcott written by Sean Seeger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott is the first dedicated comparative study of James Joyce and Derek Walcott. The book examines the ways in which both Joyce’s fiction and Walcott’s poetry articulate a nonlinear conception of time with radical cultural and political implications. For Joyce and Walcott equally, the book argues, it is only by reconceiving time in this way that it becomes possible to envisage a means of escape from what Joyce calls “force, hatred, history” and what Walcott calls the “madness of history seen as sequential time”. A starting point for the comparisons drawn between Joyce and Walcott is their relationship to Homer. Joyce’s Ulysses is in one respect a rewriting of Homer’s Odyssey; Walcott’s Omeros stands in an analogous relationship to the Iliad. This book argues that these acts of rewriting, far from being instances of influence, intertexuality, or straightforward repetition, exemplify Joyce and Walcott’s complex stance, not just toward literary history, but toward the idea of history as such. The book goes on to demonstrate how an enhanced appreciation of the role of nonlinear temporality in Joyce and Walcott can help to illuminate numerous other aspects of their work.
The Cambridge Companion To The Epic
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Author : Catherine Bates
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-22
The Cambridge Companion To The Epic written by Catherine Bates and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camões, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages.
The Postcolonial Epic
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Author : Sneharika Roy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
Release Date : 2019-12-12
The Postcolonial Epic written by Sneharika Roy and has been published by Routledge Chapman & Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-12 with Epic literature categories.
This book demonstrates the epic genre's enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the 'postcolonial epic', ushered in by Herman Melville's Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott's Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh's South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy. The work focuses on the epic genre's rich potential to articulate postimperial concerns with nation and migration across the Global North/South divide. It foregrounds postcolonial developments in the genre including a shift from politics to political economy, subaltern reconfigurations of capitalist and imperial temporalities, and the poststructuralist preoccupation with language and representation. In addition to bringing to light hitherto unexamined North/South affiliations between Melville, Walcott and Ghosh, the book proposes a fresh approach to epic through the comparative concept of 'political epic', where an avowed national politics promoting a culture's 'pure' origins coexists uneasily with a disavowed poetics of intertextual borrowing from 'other' cultures. An important intervention in literary studies, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of postcolonial studies, especially South Asian and Caribbean literature, Global South studies, transnational studies and cultural studies.
Collected Poems 1948 1984
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Author : Derek Walcott
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1986
Collected Poems 1948 1984 written by Derek Walcott and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Poetry categories.
Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
Narrative And Voice In Postwar Poetry
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Author : Neil Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-12
Narrative And Voice In Postwar Poetry written by Neil Roberts and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live. The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.