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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... speech of nearly forty lines not to challenge Achilles alone . His biting hatred for the man who has slain so many of his children is mingled with sorrow for the dead and deep affection for Hector , whose 6 It is just possible that the ...
... speech of nearly forty lines not to challenge Achilles alone . His biting hatred for the man who has slain so many of his children is mingled with sorrow for the dead and deep affection for Hector , whose 6 It is just possible that the ...
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... speech , recalls his dead friend Patroclus , and decides to challenge the Trojans to come out and rescue their ... speech . Many of these " speeches " are of brief duration ; even so , they give a glimpse into a character's motives . 9 ...
... speech , recalls his dead friend Patroclus , and decides to challenge the Trojans to come out and rescue their ... speech . Many of these " speeches " are of brief duration ; even so , they give a glimpse into a character's motives . 9 ...
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... speech or digression and the return to the main flow of the narrative was indicated with some verbal reminiscence of its beginning . Such verbal and thematic echoes , reinforced by their effective employment in the influential poetry of ...
... speech or digression and the return to the main flow of the narrative was indicated with some verbal reminiscence of its beginning . Such verbal and thematic echoes , reinforced by their effective employment in the influential poetry of ...
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... speech , already prominent in Homer , will be developed , following the prece- dents of lyric and drama . 4. Style too will seek to play on the emotions . The reader must be swept along in some places , made the recipient of hammer ...
... speech , already prominent in Homer , will be developed , following the prece- dents of lyric and drama . 4. Style too will seek to play on the emotions . The reader must be swept along in some places , made the recipient of hammer ...
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... speech . Euripides does this , and was the first to show how , 13 In vacillating about the effectiveness of current speech in poetry , and using Euripides to prove two opposites , Aristotle opened the door to at least one way of ...
... speech . Euripides does this , and was the first to show how , 13 In vacillating about the effectiveness of current speech in poetry , and using Euripides to prove two opposites , Aristotle opened the door to at least one way of ...
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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