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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... beginning of the book where his fellow Trojans were also fawns . Yet again he recovers with divine aid . The seemingly eternal flight and pursuit , which recalls some episode in a dream or nightmare , takes both 10 On the Homeric simile ...
... beginning of the book where his fellow Trojans were also fawns . Yet again he recovers with divine aid . The seemingly eternal flight and pursuit , which recalls some episode in a dream or nightmare , takes both 10 On the Homeric simile ...
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... beginning . Such verbal and thematic echoes , reinforced by their effective employment in the influential poetry of the lyric poet Pindar , were developed over the centuries into a powerful means for securing both unity and intensity in ...
... beginning . Such verbal and thematic echoes , reinforced by their effective employment in the influential poetry of the lyric poet Pindar , were developed over the centuries into a powerful means for securing both unity and intensity in ...
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... beginning of one's literature was a priceless advantage . When Homer was credited with the invention of tragedy as well as epic , 19 his critics divined something implicit in the structure of his work . He moves continually between ...
... beginning of one's literature was a priceless advantage . When Homer was credited with the invention of tragedy as well as epic , 19 his critics divined something implicit in the structure of his work . He moves continually between ...
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... beginning of the fourth century . This genre was still flourishing in the fifth century after Christ , and we may take the fragments we have from that date as fair specimens of what it became after it left Choerilus ' hands , 23 U. von ...
... beginning of the fourth century . This genre was still flourishing in the fifth century after Christ , and we may take the fragments we have from that date as fair specimens of what it became after it left Choerilus ' hands , 23 U. von ...
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... beginning rather than the end of the hero's quest , and brings him immediately into fresh danger . The fight with ... beginnings in the popular preaching of the Cynic philosophers . Even Callimachus ' own patron in the Iamboi , Ion of ...
... beginning rather than the end of the hero's quest , and brings him immediately into fresh danger . The fight with ... beginnings in the popular preaching of the Cynic philosophers . Even Callimachus ' own patron in the Iamboi , Ion of ...
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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