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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... fact been taken up to heaven , where it was now visible in a new constel- lation discovered recently by the court astronomer , Conon . The ring- composition came full circle in compliment . In these last two books , by a device which ...
... fact been taken up to heaven , where it was now visible in a new constel- lation discovered recently by the court astronomer , Conon . The ring- composition came full circle in compliment . In these last two books , by a device which ...
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... fact perfectly legitimate according to the rhetoricians ' rules ? It cannot have been the style in itself that caused the complaint . The only explanation for the bitter criticism made by the Telchines 39 On the ischnos character see ...
... fact perfectly legitimate according to the rhetoricians ' rules ? It cannot have been the style in itself that caused the complaint . The only explanation for the bitter criticism made by the Telchines 39 On the ischnos character see ...
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... fact that the oath at fr . 260. 52 Pf . looks as if it were uttered by the crow , but is quoted by the Suda as a saying of Hecale herself . See the discussion by H. Lloyd - Jones and J. Rea in Harvard Stud . Class . Phil . 72 ( 1968 ) ...
... fact that the oath at fr . 260. 52 Pf . looks as if it were uttered by the crow , but is quoted by the Suda as a saying of Hecale herself . See the discussion by H. Lloyd - Jones and J. Rea in Harvard Stud . Class . Phil . 72 ( 1968 ) ...
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... fact must be clearly stated that there is no such ancient literary genre as the epyllion , and this in a world where grammarians were just as inventive of jargon as their more recent counterparts.48 Callimachus was not intending to ...
... fact must be clearly stated that there is no such ancient literary genre as the epyllion , and this in a world where grammarians were just as inventive of jargon as their more recent counterparts.48 Callimachus was not intending to ...
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... fact read it as a key at least to some kinds of later literature ? I It begins with a very unconservative notion , by admitting the possi- bility of imaginative ( " mimetic " ) writing in prose , and so looking ahead to the modern novel ...
... fact read it as a key at least to some kinds of later literature ? I It begins with a very unconservative notion , by admitting the possi- bility of imaginative ( " mimetic " ) writing in prose , and so looking ahead to the modern novel ...
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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