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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... artists as if they too were scholars and , in the case of the Alexandrians , they are often right . But there is a non - discursive cognition available to the artist , as Kant long ago pointed out , which modifies questions about par ...
... artists as if they too were scholars and , in the case of the Alexandrians , they are often right . But there is a non - discursive cognition available to the artist , as Kant long ago pointed out , which modifies questions about par ...
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... artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our cramping age ? Is it a contribution to literae humaniores } I would like to thank the Center for Advanced Study at the ...
... artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our cramping age ? Is it a contribution to literae humaniores } I would like to thank the Center for Advanced Study at the ...
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John Kevin Newman. But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights that artistic necessity may have first disclosed , saw here the paradigm of all human violence.16 In Book XXII , Hector's death is linked not only with that of ...
John Kevin Newman. But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights that artistic necessity may have first disclosed , saw here the paradigm of all human violence.16 In Book XXII , Hector's death is linked not only with that of ...
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... artist exquisitely sensitive to the 27 See ALEXANDRIAN CODE in the Glossary of Critical Terms . On Hesiod in this role cf. especially M. Reitzenstein , Festschrift Richard Reitzenstein ( Leipzig and Berlin 1931 ) , pp . 41 IT . Of ...
... artist exquisitely sensitive to the 27 See ALEXANDRIAN CODE in the Glossary of Critical Terms . On Hesiod in this role cf. especially M. Reitzenstein , Festschrift Richard Reitzenstein ( Leipzig and Berlin 1931 ) , pp . 41 IT . Of ...
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... artist , who is not seeking to take the intellect's revenge on art , but himself to contribute to it . S. Eisenstein ... artists of the confident assertion and the bold generalization . But even in literature the epic has gone on ...
... artist , who is not seeking to take the intellect's revenge on art , but himself to contribute to it . S. Eisenstein ... artists of the confident assertion and the bold generalization . But even in literature the epic has gone on ...
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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