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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 295–322.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Sarah Berry Derek Walcott’s Harry Dernier and Sylvia Plath’s Three Women , two little-known, midcentury radio plays, cultivate characters who sound like the speaker of a lyric poem, even as they foreground the invisible bodies behind the voices. In offering us voices that both invite and obstruct...
FIGURES
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Víctor Figueroa Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m
Encomium of Helen:
Derek Walcotts Ethical Twist in Omeros
Victor Figueroa
" W h e n the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, one of the founding figures
of the négritude movement in Caribbean letters, asked in his now...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 197–216.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Charles W. Pollard Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 HI
Traveling with Joyce:
Derek Walcott’s Discrepant
Cosmopolitan Modernism
Charles W. Pollard
Consider the following description as a question on a final exam in a
course on modernist literature...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 374–390.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Robert D. Hamner Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Creolizing Homer
for the Stage:
Walcott’s The Odyssey
Robert D. Hamner
[Wjhat is needed is not new names for old things, or old names
for old things, but the faith of using the old names anew, so...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 110–113.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Laurence A. Breiner New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite , by Pollard Charles W. , University of Virginia Press , 2004 . 231 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Eliot in the Tropics
New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 259–262.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Jeff Westover Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney , by Rotella Guy , Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2004 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Not Marble nor...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 116–121.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Ursula K. Heise Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott , by Handley George , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2007 . 448 pages. Ursula K. Heise
Poetry and the Natures of the New World...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (1): 107–114.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., were more easily and eagerly assimilated to the American political regime of the last two decades of the Cold War: Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott. In Quinn’s view, these poets helped make “postcolonialism safe for America” (186) by advancing a critique of British imperialism that did not implicate...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 318–324.
Published: 01 September 2004
... unitary
force inherent in modernist aesthetics and politics” (90—91). In the last es
say of the first section, Reed Way Dasenbrock traces connections between
Pound and Caribbean poet and recent Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott.
Explicitly taking up issues of postcoloniality, postmodernity...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (2): 223–230.
Published: 01 June 2016
... injustice and making it visible. While the chapter references Derek Walcott’s and Homi Bhabha’s difficulties in identifying Naipaul as a Caribbean writer, one might still wonder why Walcott’s “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory” (1992) does not play a larger role here given its identification...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 232–263.
Published: 01 June 2015
... by Carl Velten from 1893–1896 , edited and translated by Harries Lyndon . London : Oxford University Press . Walcott Derek . 1993 . “ Culture or Mimicry? ” In Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott , edited by Hamner Robert D. , 51 – 57 . Washington : Three Continents Press...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Walcott,
whose 1992 Nobel Prize came almost a decade before Naipaul’s in 2001. Wal
cott is typically lumped in with Naipaul’s accusers, having coined the taunting
moniker “V. S. Nightfall” in his 1981 poem “The Spoiler’s Return.” However,
that poem, in singling out Naipaul for his cynicism...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 244–248.
Published: 01 June 2005
... narrowing of description to landscape and
artworks makes perfect sense. But a contemporary such as Derek Walcott,
for example, can open his poem “The Glory Trumpeter” with the lines
“Old Eddie’s face, wrinkled with river lights, / Looked like a Mississippi
man’s.The eyes, / Derisive...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... “Natural History and Epiphany: Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin
Letter.” 50.3 (2004): 268-282
Pollard, Charles W. “Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott’s Discrepant Cosmo
politan Modernism.” 47.2 (2001): 197-216
Pound, Ezra. See Fletcher
Pynchon, Thomas. See Cohen; Rosenfeld
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Index
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 272–279.
Published: 01 June 2015
... involvement in a number of the very things he decried. Sandover is part of and predicated upon the epic tradition even as it interrogates and attempts to unravel that tradition’s complicity with various imperialisms. (In this it has much in common with Derek Walcott’s Omeros [1990].) For all...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 329–358.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., never becomes fully visible” (2003, 4, 52). 4 On the subterranean situation as inefficacy, see Walcott 1972 , 14; Cooke 1984 , 107–9; Jacobs 2001 , 197–99; Rampersad 2007 , 246; and Foley 2010 , 328. See also Rice 2003 (Rice repeatedly argues that Ellison, like his narrator, is politically...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (4): 539–574.
Published: 01 December 2013
... Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill,
Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney” (2004).
12. On Charmides in “Losing the Marbles,” criticism has been very scant. In
the only accounts of Charmides’s presence that I have been able to discover,
Evans Lansing Smith observes that the poem’s reconstructed ode...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
...
the cultural specificity of Yeats’s stylistic gesture, its genesis “amid [the]
riot and great anger” of intracolonial contestation (Explorations 230). Little
wonder that it struck a chord with later writers of decolonization like
Chinua Achebe and Derek Walcott.
More narrowly, we can say...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 437–461.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Americas. Philadelphia:
U of Pennsylvania P, 2005.
Parsons, Deborah. Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City, and Modernity.
Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2000.
Pollard, Charles. New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau
Brathwaite. Charlottesville: U...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 142–178.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., 1982.
Rotella, Guy. Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Eizabeth
Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney.
Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2004.
Saez, Richard. ‘“At the Salon Level’: Merrill’s Apocalyptic Epic.” Lehman and
Berger...
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