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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... literary epic would look like which acknowledged Alexandrian influence as legitimate instead of either ignoring it or scolding as deviant great writers in whom its presence was too obvious to be overlooked . If this clue were to be ...
... literary epic would look like which acknowledged Alexandrian influence as legitimate instead of either ignoring it or scolding as deviant great writers in whom its presence was too obvious to be overlooked . If this clue were to be ...
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... literary problem made by Johannes Th . Kakridis , Homeric Researches ( Lund 1949 ) , is essential . Among more recent work , the English - speaking student will particularly wish to consult Howard Clarke , Homer's Readers ( Newark ...
... literary problem made by Johannes Th . Kakridis , Homeric Researches ( Lund 1949 ) , is essential . Among more recent work , the English - speaking student will particularly wish to consult Howard Clarke , Homer's Readers ( Newark ...
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... literary seriousness that he even concerned himself at such a time with the problems of epic narrative at all . Then and now the poet has reaped small thanks . Bitterly criticized from diverse quarters , he replied in his old age that ...
... literary seriousness that he even concerned himself at such a time with the problems of epic narrative at all . Then and now the poet has reaped small thanks . Bitterly criticized from diverse quarters , he replied in his old age that ...
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... literary dialect , never spoken , employing many archaic forms and words which , by a long process at which we can now only guess , have become superbly adapted to the easy course of narration . There is nothing stilted about the ...
... literary dialect , never spoken , employing many archaic forms and words which , by a long process at which we can now only guess , have become superbly adapted to the easy course of narration . There is nothing stilted about the ...
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... Literary Papyri ( London and Cambridge , Mass . 1950 ) , no . 142 , and H. Lloyd - Jones and P. Parsons , Supplementum Hellenisticum , especially p . 362 , no . 764. In late Latin Corippus and Flavius Merobaudes might be cited as ...
... Literary Papyri ( London and Cambridge , Mass . 1950 ) , no . 142 , and H. Lloyd - Jones and P. Parsons , Supplementum Hellenisticum , especially p . 362 , no . 764. In late Latin Corippus and Flavius Merobaudes might be cited as ...
Contents
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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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