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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... book is concerned with the imagination's contours , with pattern and convergence , with the genre that remem- bers , even if the artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our ...
... book is concerned with the imagination's contours , with pattern and convergence , with the genre that remem- bers , even if the artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our ...
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... London , Toronto 1981 ) ; Jasper Griffin , Homer on Life and Death ( Oxford 1980 ) ; C. W. Macleod , Homer , Iliad Book XXIV ( Cambridge 1982 ) . sometimes meant to the Greeks , not merely and cleanly 3 A Map of the Terrain.
... London , Toronto 1981 ) ; Jasper Griffin , Homer on Life and Death ( Oxford 1980 ) ; C. W. Macleod , Homer , Iliad Book XXIV ( Cambridge 1982 ) . sometimes meant to the Greeks , not merely and cleanly 3 A Map of the Terrain.
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... book on which Virgil modeled the end of the Aeneid , we shall be able to form some estimate of the greatness and range of the epic paradigm . Callimachus ' Alexandrian contemporaries probably had to create Book XXII of the poem in a ...
... book on which Virgil modeled the end of the Aeneid , we shall be able to form some estimate of the greatness and range of the epic paradigm . Callimachus ' Alexandrian contemporaries probably had to create Book XXII of the poem in a ...
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... book of 515 lines ends . No one could read this narrative without being moved . Its appeal lies firstly in its alternations of experiences that are basic to all human hearts — laughter and sorrow , fear , revenge , betrayal , love for ...
... book of 515 lines ends . No one could read this narrative without being moved . Its appeal lies firstly in its alternations of experiences that are basic to all human hearts — laughter and sorrow , fear , revenge , betrayal , love for ...
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... book when , with Hector slain , Achilles is free to celebrate the obsequies of his dead friend , and to accept his own mortality . The tight unity that is imposed on the poem by this method of composition has further ramifications ...
... book when , with Hector slain , Achilles is free to celebrate the obsequies of his dead friend , and to accept his own mortality . The tight unity that is imposed on the poem by this method of composition has further ramifications ...
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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