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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... Callimaque " ( p . 101 : " In these scenes on Olympus the humor sometimes verges on the tender , and Homer's refinement astonishingly heralds that of a Callimachus ” ) . achievement , and of the role played in it by A Map of the Terrain 15.
... Callimaque " ( p . 101 : " In these scenes on Olympus the humor sometimes verges on the tender , and Homer's refinement astonishingly heralds that of a Callimachus ” ) . achievement , and of the role played in it by A Map of the Terrain 15.
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John Kevin Newman. achievement , and of the role played in it by the topsy - turvy of the carnival.21 II In coming to terms with this universality , later poets had various courses open to them . They could develop the genres at which ...
John Kevin Newman. achievement , and of the role played in it by the topsy - turvy of the carnival.21 II In coming to terms with this universality , later poets had various courses open to them . They could develop the genres at which ...
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... playing with words . Callimachus had in mind the genuine purpose of introducing a poetry which , without betraying the advances made by his contemporaries , would nevertheless be worthy to stand at the side of the best that the past had ...
... playing with words . Callimachus had in mind the genuine purpose of introducing a poetry which , without betraying the advances made by his contemporaries , would nevertheless be worthy to stand at the side of the best that the past had ...
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... play on the emotions . The reader must be swept along in some places , made the recipient of hammer blows of assertion in others ; and in all places be so charmed by the music of the verse that he is not over - concerned with its ...
... play on the emotions . The reader must be swept along in some places , made the recipient of hammer blows of assertion in others ; and in all places be so charmed by the music of the verse that he is not over - concerned with its ...
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... playing with the concept , playing in an " if only " kind of way . Could this Theseus ever grow up ? 47 46 Pfeiffer on Hecale fr . 239 . 47 Cf. J. Huizinga , Homo Ludens ( 4th ed . , Haarlem 1952 ) . The difficult concept of irony is ...
... playing with the concept , playing in an " if only " kind of way . Could this Theseus ever grow up ? 47 46 Pfeiffer on Hecale fr . 239 . 47 Cf. J. Huizinga , Homo Ludens ( 4th ed . , Haarlem 1952 ) . The difficult concept of irony is ...
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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