Verse and Voice in Equiano's Interesting Narrative.
Though much has been made of Olaudah Equiano's quotation of poetry in his Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), it has previously gone unnoticed that he also borrows the words of one of those poems (Day and Bicknell's The Dying Negro) in places outside of block quotations, wor...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 122; no. 2; pp. 263 - 286 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Chicago Press
Nov2024
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