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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Page 13
... interesting suggestion that Achilles may be anticipating his own death at lines 385 ff . In that case , Homer would be prefiguring a characteristically Virgilian irony ( and " learning " ) — which is only another way of saying that the ...
... interesting suggestion that Achilles may be anticipating his own death at lines 385 ff . In that case , Homer would be prefiguring a characteristically Virgilian irony ( and " learning " ) — which is only another way of saying that the ...
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... interesting for its metamorphosis of Muse into poetry . The quoting of a prose source parallels Ariosto's frequent references to his alleged source in Archbishop Turpin , ' and perhaps even Eliot's notes to the Waste Land . 38 Pfeiffer ...
... interesting for its metamorphosis of Muse into poetry . The quoting of a prose source parallels Ariosto's frequent references to his alleged source in Archbishop Turpin , ' and perhaps even Eliot's notes to the Waste Land . 38 Pfeiffer ...
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... interesting remarks ( Virgils Epische Technik [ 4th ed . , repr . Stuttgart 1957 ] , pp . 466-67 ) , in which he suggests that Aristotle's original doctrine was trivialized after his death and made to accommodate grosser emotional ...
... interesting remarks ( Virgils Epische Technik [ 4th ed . , repr . Stuttgart 1957 ] , pp . 466-67 ) , in which he suggests that Aristotle's original doctrine was trivialized after his death and made to accommodate grosser emotional ...
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... interesting sidelight is thrown on this theory of composition by two passages in Aristophanes . In the first , Euripides is shown dressed in the ragged garb of his lame and suffering heroes . In the second , it is Agathon who has got ...
... interesting sidelight is thrown on this theory of composition by two passages in Aristophanes . In the first , Euripides is shown dressed in the ragged garb of his lame and suffering heroes . In the second , it is Agathon who has got ...
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... interesting corollary , and that is its assumption that Callimachus and Praxiphanes must have been aware of the doctrines of the Poetics in order to quarrel about them . But need Aristotle's hesitations be quite so firmly resolved ...
... interesting corollary , and that is its assumption that Callimachus and Praxiphanes must have been aware of the doctrines of the Poetics in order to quarrel about them . But need Aristotle's hesitations be quite so firmly resolved ...
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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