Laurence A Breiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 355420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence A Breiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence A |
| FAMILY NAME | Breiner |
| SIGNATURE | BREINER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Read the Books
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Too Much History, or Not Enough
Edward Baugh’s essay “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History” (1977) presents the quarrel as a condition rather than an event and investigates this specifically Caribbean psychopathology and the defense mechanisms associated with it. The investigation implicitly follows a sequence of questions: Does the West Indies have a history of its own? What does it mean to have to ask that? Whether the answer is yes or no, how does one come to …
Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
The perception of Walcott as a poet primarily in dialogue with the European tradition encourages an assumption that he writes in metropolitan standard English. Yet instances of Caribbean creole in his poetry are significant, and more frequent than they may appear at first glance. To investigate Derek Walcott's use of creole language in his poems, and the implications of that use, we should begin by taking note of how the language of poetry writte…
No Condition Is Permanent
Mabrak
An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Brein…
History, Nature, and People in the Poetry of Eric Roach
Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet
(1980). Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 26, Braithwaite Walcott, pp. 1-12
The Career of the Cockatrice
Analogical Argument in Bruno's De L'infinito
Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
The perception of Walcott as a poet primarily in dialogue with the European tradition encourages an assumption that he writes in metropolitan standard English. Yet instances of Caribbean creole in his poetry are significant, and more frequent than they may appear at first glance. To investigate Derek Walcott's use of creole language in his poems, and the implications of that use, we should begin by taking note of how the language of poetry writte…
Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet
(1980). Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 26, Braithwaite Walcott, pp. 1-12
The Career of the Cockatrice
Analogical Argument in Bruno's De L'infinito
The Career of the Cockatrice
Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet
(1980). Tradition, Society, The Figure of The Poet. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 26, Braithwaite Walcott, pp. 1-12
History, Nature, and People in the Poetry of Eric Roach
An Introduction to West Indian Poetry
This introduction to West Indian poetry is written for readers making their first approach to poetry in English written in the Caribbean. It offers a comprehensive literary history from the 1920s to the 1980s, with particular attention to the relationship of West Indian poetry to European, African and American literature. Close readings of individual poems give detailed analysis of social and cultural issues at work in the writing. Laurence Brein…
Mabrak
No Condition Is Permanent
Creole Language in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
The perception of Walcott as a poet primarily in dialogue with the European tradition encourages an assumption that he writes in metropolitan standard English. Yet instances of Caribbean creole in his poetry are significant, and more frequent than they may appear at first glance. To investigate Derek Walcott's use of creole language in his poems, and the implications of that use, we should begin by taking note of how the language of poetry writte…
Too Much History, or Not Enough
Edward Baugh’s essay “The West Indian Writer and His Quarrel with History” (1977) presents the quarrel as a condition rather than an event and investigates this specifically Caribbean psychopathology and the defense mechanisms associated with it. The investigation implicitly follows a sequence of questions: Does the West Indies have a history of its own? What does it mean to have to ask that? Whether the answer is yes or no, how does one come to …
Read the Books
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
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