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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... imagination and creativity will tend to move among artists of the European and European - influenced family . Those who come after them , and even those who do not know too much about them in any formal sense , will find that they bump ...
... imagination and creativity will tend to move among artists of the European and European - influenced family . Those who come after them , and even those who do not know too much about them in any formal sense , will find that they bump ...
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... imagination's contours , with pattern and convergence , with the genre that remem- bers , even if the artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our cramping age ? Is it a ...
... imagination's contours , with pattern and convergence , with the genre that remem- bers , even if the artist does not . Its justification can only be retroactive . Do its perspectives enlarge the spirit in our cramping age ? Is it a ...
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... marginal . Cf. Yu . Tynianov in Theorie de la litterature , ed . T. Todorov ( Paris 1965 ) , p . 132 ( from an article written in Russia in 1927 ) . But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights 12 A Map of the Terrain.
... marginal . Cf. Yu . Tynianov in Theorie de la litterature , ed . T. Todorov ( Paris 1965 ) , p . 132 ( from an article written in Russia in 1927 ) . But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights 12 A Map of the Terrain.
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John Kevin Newman. But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights that artistic necessity may have first ... imaginations cannot have free rein in the presence of a masterpiece . See Lesky's " Homeros , " col . 761 , for the ...
John Kevin Newman. But the imagination of Virgil , working from the insights that artistic necessity may have first ... imaginations cannot have free rein in the presence of a masterpiece . See Lesky's " Homeros , " col . 761 , for the ...
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... imagination of later generations . " Estrange- ment , " for the Formalists the basic task of art , the dislocation of perceptions from the commonplace of everyday , is exploited by Homer in many ways . Here it enjoys one of its most ...
... imagination of later generations . " Estrange- ment , " for the Formalists the basic task of art , the dislocation of perceptions from the commonplace of everyday , is exploited by Homer in many ways . Here it enjoys one of its most ...
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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