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Fragment of a marble Sarcophagus
ca. 230-240 ACE
Duke Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Books

  1.  Journal of a Homecoming. Englis Translation, with INtroduction of Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal. (Currently Researching).
  2.  Meditating Thalia: The Interplay of Ideas in Vergil's Bucolics (tentative title). (Currently Researching).
  3.  Aimé Césaire.  Cambridge University Press, (1997). (Cambridge)
  4.  Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse.  University of California Press, (1991). (Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford)
  5.  Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire.  Stanford University Press, (1984). (Stanford, Ca.)
  6.  The Death of Procris: "Amor" and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses.  Edizioni dell' Ateneo, (1983). (Rome, Italy)
  7.  Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People.  Scrimshaw Press, (1971). (San Francisco)

Articles

  1. "Reframing the Homeric: images of the Odyssey in the art of Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden." Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions  Forthcoming: Oxford University Press (2007).
  2. "'Homecomings without Home': representations of (post)colonial nostos (homecoming) in the lyric of Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott'." Homer in the Twentieth Century: between World Literature and the Western Canon. Edited by Emily Greenwood & Barbara Graziosi.  Forthcoming: Oxford University Press (2007).
  3. "Ut pictura poesis." Agenda (Special Issue on Derek Walcott)  vol. 39 no. 1-3,  (2002-2003) 198-9.
  4. "Beyond Disciplinary Hierarchies in Higher Education." Bruce A. Kimball: The Condition of American Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition. Edited by Robert Orrill.  College Entrance Examination Board, New York (1995).
  5. "Between Cultures: toward a redefinition of Liberal Education." African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum. Edited by P. Alden, D. Lloyd & A. Samatar.  Lynne Reicher Publishers, Boulder, Colorado & London (1994) 19-3.
  6. "Lyric worlds: Old and New under the sun." Arts and Sciences Newsletter  vol. 12 no. 1, Cornell University (1991).
  7. "The mind at the end of the palm." The Stanford Magazine   (1982) 46-5.

Papers Published

  1. "From Lyric to Elegy: The inscription of the Elegiac Subject in Heroides 15 (Sappho to Phaon)." Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to WIlliam S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Edited by William W. Batstone & Garth Tissol. Lang Classical Studies vol. 51 Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York  175-191.
  2. "Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Collection."    (2004). [html]
  3. "Consolation in the Bucolic mode: The Epicurean cadence of Vergil's First Eclogue." Vergil. Philodemus, and the Augustans. Edited by David Armstrong, Jeffrey Fish, Patricia Johnston, and Marilyn Skinner.  University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas (2003) 63-74.
  4. "Ait Phaselus: The Caricature of Stylistic Inelegance in Catullus 4"." "Materiali e discussioni per l'analysi dei testi classici."  vol. 48   111-143.
  5. "Introduction." Horace: Odes. Trans. James Michie Modern Library Random House .
  6. "'Pastoral sites': aspects of bucolic transformation in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." Classical World  vol. 93.1   43-9.
  7. "L'intertextualite comme strategie dans un programme postcolonial: 'Ferrements' d'Aime Cesaire.." Europe  vol. 832-3   109-18.
  8. "'With no Homeric Shadow': The Disavowal of Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 96.2  (1997) 321-33.
  9. "The figure of Anacreon in Horatian lyric." Hellas  vol. 7.2  (1996) 63-74. (Special issue in honor of Wesley Trimpi)
  10. "Cupid at the Ivory Gates: Ausonius as a reader of Vergil." Colby Quarterly  vol. 30.3  (1992) 162-170. (Studies in Roman Epic)
  11. "Desire and the Hunt in Ovid's Metamorphoses." The Burnett Lectures: A Quarter Century. Edited by E.N.Genovese.   (1993) 142-170. (San Diego, Ca.)
  12. "Ingenii cumba?: literary aporia and the rhetoric of Horace's O navis referent (C.1.14)." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie  vol. 132  (1989) 331-345.
  13. "Quis...digne scripserit?: The topos of alter Homerus in Horace C.1.6." Phoenix  vol. 41.3  (1987) 292-295.
  14. "Carmina/Iambi: the literary-generic dimension of Horace's Integer vitae (C.1, 22)." Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica  vol. 27.3  (1987) 67-78. (Why Horace: A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W.S. Anderson, Bolchazy-Carducci, Wauconda, Ill, 1999, 51-62)
  15. "Silence and Decorum: Encomiastic Convention and the Epilogue of Horace Carm 3.2." Classical Antiquity  vol. 2.1  (1983) 9-26. (Studies in Classical Lyric : A Homage to Elroy Bundy)
  16. "The Disavowal of the Grand (Recusatio) in two poems by Wallace Stevens." Pacific Coast Philology  vol. 17 no. 1-2,  (1982) 92-102.
  17. "The Problem of Closure in a carmen perpetuum: Aspects of Thematic Recapitulation in Ovid Metamorphoses 15." Grazer Beiträge  vol. 9  (1980) 123-132.
  18. "Ovid Metamorphoses 3.442ff. and the Prologue to Menander's Misoumenos." Phoenix  vol. 32  (1978) 339-342.
  19. "Towards a `Non-Vicious Circle': The Lyric of Aimé Césaire in English." Stanford French Review  vol. 1.1  (1977) 135-146.
  20. "The Persona of Licymnia: a Revaluation of Horace Carm. 2.12." Philologus  vol. 1.119  (1975) 70-83.
  21. "Ad Sidera Notus: The Rhetoric of Lament and Consolation in Fortunatus' De Gelesuintha." Agon  vol. 1.1  (1967) 118-134.

Book & Monograph Reviews

  1.  Horace's Narrative Odes by Michèle Lowrie (Oxford 1997). Classical Review ns. 49 1  50-2.
  2.  Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros by Robert D. Hammer (Columbia 1997). South Central Review 15 2 (1998) 59-61.
  3.  Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry by Rei Terada (Boston 1992). American Literature 69 1 (1997) 241.
  4.  “On Césaire.” Review-essay on Aimé Césaire: le nègre inconsolé by Roger Toumson and Simonne Henry-Valmore (Paris/Fort-de-France 1993); Aimé Césaire: une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphael Confiant (Paris 1993); Cahier d’un retour au pays natal ed. Abiola Irele. Research in African Literatures 26 2 (1995) 173-184.
  5.  Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception by Charles Martindale (Cambridge 1993). New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 20 4 (1993) 203-206.
  6.  From a Sabine Jar by L. Edmunds (Chapel Hill 1992). Classical Journal 88 2 (1993) 203-206.
  7.  Metaformations by F. Ahl (Ithaca 1985). Classical Philology 83 3 (1988) 260-262.
  8. N.G. Davis, The Art of the Aeneid by W.S. Anderson. Comparative Literature 24 1 (1972) 93-4.

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