The Poetics of Derek Walcott: Intertextual Perspectives
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davis, Gregs<strong>onstrong>, PUBLISHER: Duke University Press, <str<strong>onstrong>g>Thestr<strong>onstrong>g> essays collected in this issue offer complementary critical perspectives <strong>onstrong> <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> mature lyric work of Derek Walcott, <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> acclaimed Nobel laureate from <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> Caribbean island of St. Lucia. <str<strong>onstrong>g>Thestr<strong>onstrong>g> centerpiece of <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> ensemble is a previously unpublished essay in which Walcott's reflecti<strong>onstrong>s <strong>onstrong> poetics illuminate his project in <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> masterpiece, "Omeros." O<str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g>r c<strong>onstrong>tributi<strong>onstrong>s by literary scholars in North America and <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> Caribbean focus <strong>onstrong> fundamental dimensi<strong>onstrong>s of Walcott's craft and <strong>onstrong> such <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g>matic preoccupati<strong>onstrong>s as <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> intersecti<strong>onstrong> of pictorial and verbal modes of representati<strong>onstrong>, <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> deployment of nuanced intertextual strategies (especially in relati<strong>onstrong> to <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> Greco-Roman can<strong>onstrong>), <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> inventi<strong>onstrong> of a viable artistic identity in a postcol<strong>onstrong>ial intercultural milieu, and <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> psychosocial modeling of <str<strong>onstrong>g>thestr<strong>onstrong>g> process of literary apprenticeship. "C<strong>onstrong>tributors. "Edward Baugh, Peter Burian, Gregs<strong>onstrong> Davis, Carol Dougherty, Joseph Farrell, Judith Harris, Timothy Hofmeister, Derek Walcott