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Title: Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life. (St. Lucia).(Review)
Author: Jim Hannan
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 75Issue: 2Page: 310(2)

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The essays collected in this issue offer complementary critical perspectives on the mature lyric work of Derek Walcott, the acclaimed Nobel laureate from the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. The centerpiece of the ensemble is a previously unpublished essay in which Walcott’s reflections on poetics illuminate his project in the masterpiece, Omeros.
Other contributions by literary scholars in North America and the Caribbean focus on fundamental dimensions of Walcott’s craft and on such thematic preoccupations as the intersection of pictorial and verbal modes of representation, the deployment of nuanced intertextual strategies (especially in relation to the Greco-Roman canon), the invention of a viable artistic identity in a postcolonial intercultural milieu, and the psychosocial modeling of the process of literary apprenticeship.

Contributors. Edward Baugh, Peter Burian, Gregson Davis, Carol Dougherty, Joseph Farrell, Judith Harris, Timothy Hofmeister, Derek Walcott
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Title: La visita del Nobel. (escritor antillano Derek Walcott dicta curso en España)(TT: Nobel visit) (TA: Antillan writer Derek Walcott teaches a course in Spain)
Author: Angel Vivas
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 18, 1997
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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Title: `Big poems burn women': Fredy Neptune's democratic sailor and Walcott's epic Omeros.(Derek Walcott)
Author: Line Henriksen
Publication: Australian Literary Studies (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Volume: 20Issue: 2Page: 87(24)

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This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of these language poles. The notion of 'epic ambition' refers to the poetic prestige attached to the epic genre, whereas the (non-Bloomian) 'anxiety' occurs when the poet faces not only the risk that his project might fail, but especially the moral implications of that ambition and the fear that it might prove presumptuous. The drafts of Walcott's Omeros are here examined for the first time, and attention is also devoted to Pound's creative procedures as illustrated by the drafts of the Cantos. Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1457 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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Chapters: Isaac Asimov, Lynn Margulis, Elie Wiesel, Jean Berko Gleason, Derek Walcott, Laurence Kotlikoff, John Cheever, Thomas F. Glick, Anne Sexton, Gerald Warner Brace, Robert Peters, Lucile Lawrence, Edward C. Green, Allen Weinstein, Andrew Bacevich, Ray Carney, James Collins, Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Farouk El-Baz, J. Bradford Delong, John Niemeyer Findlay, Keith Botsford, Devaki Jain, Edward Wagenknecht, H. Eugene Stanley, Floyd H. Flake, Adelaide Bishop, Peter L. Berger, Georg Joos, Maurice Halperin, Samuel Silas Curry, Adil Najam, Rosanna Warren, Richard Milton Martin, Eugene Mallove, John Barth, Bernard Rands, Christopher Ricks, Richard E. Berendzen, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Robert Epstein, George V. Higgins, Joshua Rifkin, Charles Delisi, Seyla Benhabib, Murray Levin, Diana Chapman Walsh, Mario Blejer, Robert Kuttner, Amiya Chakravarty, Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Wande Abimbola, David H. Greene, Linda L. Barnes, Louise Glück, Jacques Pépin, Fredrik Barth, Tony Barrand, Stephen Dobyns, Ha Jin, Ram Charan, Harold C. Fleming, Richard Pillard, Stanley Rosen, Michael Martin, Maurine Brown Neuberger, Richard Landes, Paul Ulanowsky, Jay Michaelson, Geoffrey M. Cooper, David Werner, Joshua Fineberg, George Starbuck, Max Jammer, Bryan Stone, Charles Richard Stith, Stephen Grossberg, Leonid Levin, Judith Baumel, John Karefa-Smart, Aaron Twerski, John C. Edmunds, Anna Geifman, Barry Zuckerman, Ari Trachtenberg, Charles Speziale, Rama Bansil, John Thow, Gottfried E. Noether, Liah Greenfeld, John Andrew Sullivan, Rikki Klieman, Walter Tandy Murch, Garfield Bromley Oxnam, Elliot Saltzman, Erin Belieu, Claudio Véliz, Kenneth Lane, Anthony Leeds, Norman Hammond, Norman O'connor, Philip K. Bates, Carl A. P. Ruck, Judson B. Coit, Wendy Mariner, Augustin Banyaga, Charles Cantor, Leonard Shure, Aaron Fogel, Jacques Zoon, Paula Fredriksen, Tino Villanueva, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Leslie Epstein, Bernard Shapiro, Paul J. Liacos, Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Shelto...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14573 ... Read more

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Title: Derek Walcott: La luz de una lengua.(poeta de Santa Lucía)(TT: Derek Walcott:light of a language.)(TA: poet, St Lucia)
Author: David Huerta
Publication: Letras Libres (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: Editorial Vuelta, S.A. de C.V.
Volume: 2Issue: 22Page: 50

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon, Derek Walcott, Charles Sainte-Claire Deville, Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, né le 11 mars 1818 à Saint Thomas (Archipel des Antilles), décédé le 1 juillet 1881 à Boulogne-sur-Seine, inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise, est un chimiste français, connu principalement pour ses travaux sur l'aluminium. Henri Sainte-Claire Deville est né dans les Antilles sur l'île de saint Thomas, possession à l'époque du Danemark. Son père, qui avait conservé sa nationalité française, était armateur. Sa famille est originaire de la région française du Périgord. Son frère Charles deviendra géologue et sera connu pour ses travaux sur les volcans. Il revient en France avec sa famille en 1824. Il entreprend des études de médecine et obtient son doctorat à 25 ans en 1843. Il se passionne pour la chimie et suit les cours du chimiste Louis Jacques Thénard. Il crée dans un grenier son premier laboratoire et découvre le toluène. Sa thèse de chimie porte sur l'essence de térébenthine. En 1845, lors de la réouverture de la faculté des sciences de Besançon, il est nommé professeur de chimie et doyen, il restera six ans. Il met au point un nouveau procédé d'analyse pour analyser l'eau du Doubs. Il isole l'acide nitrique anhydre en faisant passer du chlore sur du nitrate d'argent. Cette découverte lui vaut sa première renommée auprès du monde scientifique européen. En 1851, il est nommé maître de conférence de chimie à l'École normale supérieure de Paris à l'âge de 33 ans. Il cultive ses relations en ouvrant son laboratoire le dimanche après-midi aux célébrités scientifiques (Louis Pas...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Kenny Davis Anthony (born January 8, 1951) was the fifth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006. He is the leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) and the Leader of the Opposition. Anthony is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the University of Birmingham. In the Labour government that led the country from 1979 to 1982, Anthony was Special Advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture from August 1979 to December 1980, then Minister of Education from December 1980 to March 1981. He was a member of the secretariat of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) from March 1995 until he was elected leader of the Labour Party. He became Prime Minister on May 24, 1997, a day after the SLP won parliamentary elections. While Prime Minister, he was also the Minister of Finance and Broadcasting. Kenny D. Anthony is an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation In the general elections held on 11 December 2006, the SLP suffered a surprise defeat by 11 seats to 6 at the hands of the John Compton-led UWP. While the SLP lost the election by 5 seats, the popular vote margin was in fact very slim, just over 2000 votes. Anthony himself won a handsome victory in his constituency, Vieux Fort South, winning by 627 votes, only a few less than in the SLP's landslide election victory, thus indicating that his popularity may not be as compromised as first supposed. No word has come from him regarding his next political move. Pundits are suggesting that his perceived arrogance was responsible for his party's performance at the said polls. Some speculate that Dr. Anthony will not be retained as the party's political leader at the party's next national convention. Anthony said after the election that he intended to remain head of the party and that party delegates would decide at the next annual conference whether he would continue in that position. During his lead...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Title: Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.(Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics)(Book Review)
Author: Alan Riach
Publication: The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2004
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Volume: 99Issue: 3Page: 765(3)

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Calming Shades and Refresing Breeze From the Caribbean
Hamner's updated study of Derek Walcott is a great introduction to Walcott's ever expanding oeuvre. His views are balanced and magisterial. A great companion to this book is a chronological collection of essays,"Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott", edited by Hamnerhimself.

Most critic of Walcott tend to fall prey to the dichotomy offolk poet versus literary humanist. Hamner avoids this pitfall by stressingthe Walcott's vision of man as an exile, a castaway.

In the firstchapter, Hamner surveys the social and cultural situations of West Indiesout of which Walcott emerged. He also outlines his development phases andcommon theme.Once these foundations are sketched, he then breaksWalcott's works into five phases in the following chapters.Along thischronological approach, he shrewdly intersperses Walcott's poetry, playsand sometimes prose to illuminate his points. They are threaded lightlywith Walcott's biography. The last chapter is reserved for studyingWalcott's prose. The overall framework is excellent as the reader canappreciate Walcott's oeuvre like the lights refracted through acrystal.

Flipping through the pages, one hears Walcott's lines like waveslapping on the beach of time. Like the palm trees on the beach, Hamner'sbook offers calming shades and, now and then, some refreshingbreeze.

(Footnote. The 2-page chronology of Walcott's life can beimproved. e.g. In addition to the years when Walcott's works were publishedand performed, when were his marriages and divorces, the birth of hischildren ?I am not suggesting that one should dissect the workspsychologically. These datelines may give the reader a fuller picture ofWalcott.) ... Read more

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This first extended study of Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound (2000) defines the book as the culmination of the poetry and poetic of the Caribbean writer and Nobel Prize winner. In this long poem, Walcott achieves three goals pursued throughout his career: to develop an original Caribbean aesthetic; to meld the modes of poetry and prose; and to formulate the Bildung of the island-artist in terms of an 'autobiographical' narrative. The analysis provides an aesthetic and cultural evaluation of the poem, in terms both of the Western poetic tradition to which it refers through its rich intertextuality and of its significance as a postcolonial milestone.The commentary locates Walcott in an aesthetic tradition running from Emerson through the American Pragmatists to modernist poets; describes his experimental use of certain central narrative strategies in his semi-autobiographical long poems, which is compared to those of another, openly admired, bilingual writer, Vladimir Nabokov; explores Walcott's revision of the epic mode and of the genre of autobiography; delineates his unfolding of a post-Romantic internalization of the poet's Arthurian quest; and discusses his complex treatment of the multi-layered metaphor of light as major evidence of the maturity of his style and poetic, with their conscious cross-fertilization between the literary cultures of Europe and the Caribbean. An appendix to this study contains the transcriptions of various 'Walcott events' that took place in Italy in the summers of 2000 and 2001, including a creative writing seminar, a press conference, and readings. This extensive material opens a window onto Walcott's gifts as a teacher, to his stringent yet passionate commitment to the art of poetry, and to the ways in which he and his students grapple with the challenges of literary translation. ... Read more