The Flight of the Vernacular : : Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante / / Maria Cristina Fumagalli.
In this book, Dante, Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott engage in an eloquent and meaningful conversation. Dante's capacity for being faithful to the collective historical experience and true to the recognitions of the emerging self, the permanent immediacy of his poetry, the healthy state of his...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures ; 49 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001. |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu
- 'L'Alto Volo' and the return to the real
- 2. Flight and Folly
- Or, Dante and the megalomania of the signifier
- 3. Epitaph for the Young
- Walcott's apprentice years
- 4. The Style of Her Praise
- Dante's Vita Nuova and Walcott's Another Life
- 5. Breaking the Tribe's Complicity
- Heaney's Field Work
- 6. Shabine's alto volo and Ulysses' folle volo
- Walcott's "The Schooner Flight
- 7. Out of Avernus: Heaney's Station Island
- 8. The Book of Change: Heaney's The Haw Lantern
- 9. A Caribbean Epic of the Self: Walcott's Omeros
- 10. A Poetry of Paradise. Heaney's Seeing Things and The Spirit Level and Walcott's The Bounty
- Conclusion
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Works Cited
- Index.