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The underworld in twentieth-century poetry From pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott /

Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.'.

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Main Authors:	Thurston, Michael
Published:
Literature type:	Electronic Software eBook
Language:	English
Subjects:	Voyages to the otherworld in literature American poetry > History and criticism > 20th century Hell in literature English poetry > History and criticism > 20th century Literary studies: poetry & poets > English Literary studies: from c 1900 - > English Literature
Online Access:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230102149
Summary:	Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.'.
Item Description:	Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2010.
Carrier Form:	224 p.
Audience:	Undergraduate.
ISBN:	9780230620469 9780230102149 : 023010214X :
CLC:	I106.2
Contents:	Introduction * PART I * Declarations of Interdependence: The Necromantic Confrontation with Tradition * Katabasis as Cultural Critique * In Nekuia Begins Responsibility: "Little Gidding" and the Postwar Necromantic Tradition * PART II * James Merrill's "Book of Ephraim" * Derek Walcott's Omeros * Tony Harrison's v. * Seamus Heaney's Station Island * Epilogue.