Classical Epic TraditionThe literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions. |
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... Alexandrian poetic doctrine even on the vatic master- pieces of Augustan Roman literature , even on the Aeneid . There was an obvious next step . If the classical epic tradition had been subject in this way to previously unrecognized ...
... Alexandrian poetic doctrine even on the vatic master- pieces of Augustan Roman literature , even on the Aeneid . There was an obvious next step . If the classical epic tradition had been subject in this way to previously unrecognized ...
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... Alexandrian Library . This Alexandrian feeling that the presentation of the poems needed halting at well - defined intervals if they were to be fully effective responded to something latent in Homer's art . 6 Book XXII opens with the ...
... Alexandrian Library . This Alexandrian feeling that the presentation of the poems needed halting at well - defined intervals if they were to be fully effective responded to something latent in Homer's art . 6 Book XXII opens with the ...
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... Alexandrian literary declarations are written , and which must be learned by those who want to decipher its message.27 When we hear of Hesiod in the later tradition , or of any of the motifs derived from him , it is one of the signs ...
... Alexandrian literary declarations are written , and which must be learned by those who want to decipher its message.27 When we hear of Hesiod in the later tradition , or of any of the motifs derived from him , it is one of the signs ...
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... Alexandrian poet therefore is that epic may not be continued by the simple device of " Homerizing " modern historical material . After all , Hesiod's Muses had inspired him to sing of the past and future only , and had told him that ...
... Alexandrian poet therefore is that epic may not be continued by the simple device of " Homerizing " modern historical material . After all , Hesiod's Muses had inspired him to sing of the past and future only , and had told him that ...
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... Alexandrian work , should alert the reader to its presence at the beginning of the Alexandrian epic experiment . By suggesting that we can only come to terms with the heroic if it is reduced in this way , Callimachus is putting genuine ...
... Alexandrian work , should alert the reader to its presence at the beginning of the Alexandrian epic experiment . By suggesting that we can only come to terms with the heroic if it is reduced in this way , Callimachus is putting genuine ...
Contents
37 | |
Apollonius Rhodius | 73 |
Virgil | 104 |
Dante and Petrarch | 244 |
The Italian Tradition | 293 |
Chaucer and Milton | 339 |
Eisenstein and Pudovkin | 399 |
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