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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... Callimachean interference , it seemed logical to ask what a history of European literary epic would look like which acknowledged Alexandrian influence as legitimate instead of either ignoring it or scolding as deviant great writers in ...
... Callimachean interference , it seemed logical to ask what a history of European literary epic would look like which acknowledged Alexandrian influence as legitimate instead of either ignoring it or scolding as deviant great writers in ...
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... Callimachean terrain . As he was known , Hesiod had been the author of a motley collection of hexameter poems , not all of which now survive . Their versification revealed a hand less urbane than that of the supremely polished Homer ...
... Callimachean terrain . As he was known , Hesiod had been the author of a motley collection of hexameter poems , not all of which now survive . Their versification revealed a hand less urbane than that of the supremely polished Homer ...
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... Callimachean doctrine . What we find in Horace's Ars Poetica is a warning against allowing brevity to lead to obscurity , and a eulogy of Homer for not telling the story of the Trojan War at inordinate length.52 It is from these ...
... Callimachean doctrine . What we find in Horace's Ars Poetica is a warning against allowing brevity to lead to obscurity , and a eulogy of Homer for not telling the story of the Trojan War at inordinate length.52 It is from these ...
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... Callimachean influence on the epic is proved by those undeniable epics which have owed a debt both to the Hecale and his other poetry . Of these , one is itself just beginning to be appreciated in its full implications for the classical ...
... Callimachean influence on the epic is proved by those undeniable epics which have owed a debt both to the Hecale and his other poetry . Of these , one is itself just beginning to be appreciated in its full implications for the classical ...
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... Callimachean poetic . The title of the poem shows the musical analogy to be of primary importance . There is selection of vivid , painterly detail , which however never wholly clarifies the poet's memories . The overall unity of the ...
... Callimachean poetic . The title of the poem shows the musical analogy to be of primary importance . There is selection of vivid , painterly detail , which however never wholly clarifies the poet's memories . The overall unity of the ...
Contents
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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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