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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... poems , 2 and found a later voice to support him in Plato , who invented a theory of narrative technique to justify his ... poem in mixed meter with a comically stupid hero . The authenticity and superiority of the Iliad and Odyssey were ...
... poems , 2 and found a later voice to support him in Plato , who invented a theory of narrative technique to justify his ... poem in mixed meter with a comically stupid hero . The authenticity and superiority of the Iliad and Odyssey were ...
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... poem in a fairly literal sense . Though the epics were divided into sections by listeners and rhapsodes even in ... poems needed halting at well - defined intervals if they were to be fully effective responded to something latent in ...
... poem in a fairly literal sense . Though the epics were divided into sections by listeners and rhapsodes even in ... poems needed halting at well - defined intervals if they were to be fully effective responded to something latent in ...
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... poetic rival . His subject matter however had not been at all Homeric . The Works and Days was a didactic poem in which , in the course of nearly a thousand lines , Hesiod took issue with his brother Perses , and reminded him that every ...
... poetic rival . His subject matter however had not been at all Homeric . The Works and Days was a didactic poem in which , in the course of nearly a thousand lines , Hesiod took issue with his brother Perses , and reminded him that every ...
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... poetic treatment a music that would transform its meaning . This meant that the harmony and euphony of the line would ... poem written in this manner will often leave the obvious to be deduced by the reader , while dwelling with apparent ...
... poetic treatment a music that would transform its meaning . This meant that the harmony and euphony of the line would ... poem written in this manner will often leave the obvious to be deduced by the reader , while dwelling with apparent ...
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... poems by altogether different poets . The interpretation must be rejected . Callimachus ' argument would not hold water for a moment if he had said that the short poems of his favorites were superior to the long poems of certain others ...
... poems by altogether different poets . The interpretation must be rejected . Callimachus ' argument would not hold water for a moment if he had said that the short poems of his favorites were superior to the long poems of certain others ...
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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