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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... welcome ; and an anonymous Reader at the Press for valuable comments . This apograph from an open notebook is dedicated to my wife Frances , as is all I do . J. K. NEWMAN Urbana , 1985 The Classical Epic Tradition I T A MAP OF THE X ...
... welcome ; and an anonymous Reader at the Press for valuable comments . This apograph from an open notebook is dedicated to my wife Frances , as is all I do . J. K. NEWMAN Urbana , 1985 The Classical Epic Tradition I T A MAP OF THE X ...
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John Kevin Newman. I T A MAP OF THE TERRAIN HE classical epic tradition begins for us with Homer , and there are times when the reader of Homer , confronted by the inexhaustible riches which the Iliad and the Odyssey contain , is tempted ...
John Kevin Newman. I T A MAP OF THE TERRAIN HE classical epic tradition begins for us with Homer , and there are times when the reader of Homer , confronted by the inexhaustible riches which the Iliad and the Odyssey contain , is tempted ...
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... epic poetry on varying themes drawn from the legendary past . Reaction against the heroic values lauded by this aristocratic poetry began as early as Archilochus , who praised the kind of general that Homer's first audience would have ...
... epic poetry on varying themes drawn from the legendary past . Reaction against the heroic values lauded by this aristocratic poetry began as early as Archilochus , who praised the kind of general that Homer's first audience would have ...
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... epic paradigm . Callimachus ' Alexandrian contemporaries probably had to create Book XXII of the poem in a fairly literal sense . Though the epics were divided into sections by listeners and rhapsodes even in classical times , the ...
... epic paradigm . Callimachus ' Alexandrian contemporaries probably had to create Book XXII of the poem in a fairly literal sense . Though the epics were divided into sections by listeners and rhapsodes even in classical times , the ...
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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