Philoctete’s Healing: Echoes of Dante’s Purgatorio in Walcott’s Omeros
A complex reading adventure is the one awaiting the reader of Omeros, a book-length poem published by Derek Walcott in 1990 and, with a title reminiscent of the Greek poet par excellence, an ideal text to talk about re-writings and re-readings of the Western literary tradition. As readers, we enter...
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Milano University Press
2017-11-01
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Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/9263 |