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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... structural function of the Homeric similes is still demanded . On the simile at 26 ff . FrSnkel notes that it gives Priam's point of view . See below , pp . 133 and 162 for Virgil's development of this subjective technique in the Aeneid ...
... structural function of the Homeric similes is still demanded . On the simile at 26 ff . FrSnkel notes that it gives Priam's point of view . See below , pp . 133 and 162 for Virgil's development of this subjective technique in the Aeneid ...
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... structural functions . Similes may be made to echo one another , giving unity to the narrative and a depth of meaning which might be missing if all syntheses were left to the reader's own reflections . When the images evoked by a simile ...
... structural functions . Similes may be made to echo one another , giving unity to the narrative and a depth of meaning which might be missing if all syntheses were left to the reader's own reflections . When the images evoked by a simile ...
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... structure . We no more know what Homer himself thought in any partisan way than we know Shakespeare's views on the religious controversies of his day . An epic or drama that came down off this fence , that sought merely to " glorify ...
... structure . We no more know what Homer himself thought in any partisan way than we know Shakespeare's views on the religious controversies of his day . An epic or drama that came down off this fence , that sought merely to " glorify ...
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... structure of both comedy and tragedy . The duel is conducted before a community . Yet this community , even in the case of the human spectators , is already something " out of this world . " Priam and Hecuba watch as it were from outre ...
... structure of both comedy and tragedy . The duel is conducted before a community . Yet this community , even in the case of the human spectators , is already something " out of this world . " Priam and Hecuba watch as it were from outre ...
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... structure of his work . He moves continually between polarities , whether of person or thought , and is here the true son of his people . Apollo / Achilles ; Achilles / Hector ; Priam / Hecuba ; war / peace ; hate / love ; triumph ...
... structure of his work . He moves continually between polarities , whether of person or thought , and is here the true son of his people . Apollo / Achilles ; Achilles / Hector ; Priam / Hecuba ; war / peace ; hate / love ; triumph ...
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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