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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Main Authors: Pamela Beattie, Simona Bertacco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Milano University Press 2017-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/9263