Captain Cook in the underworld
Captain Cook in the underworld
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Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press
Date
2002
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English
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Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press
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The book is a highly stylised, ‘operatic’ account of voyages, with similarities to the musical structure of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, and opera. As the poem unfolds, European myth (Orpheus, Venus, etc) has to make space for Polynesian myth (Maui, Reinga, etc). In the final pages, Cook is required after his death to face up to the da...
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Captain Cook in the underworld
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TN_cdi_alexanderstreet_marcxml_AustralasianLiteratureOnlineAustraliaASP2345585_auli
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1869402812,9781869402815
