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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... thought the best poet must write the best sort of poetry ? 1 No , came the answer , and by a surprising paradox the best kind of poetry was declared to be tragedy , a genre of recent Athenian invention and one exported on a limited ...
... thought the best poet must write the best sort of poetry ? 1 No , came the answer , and by a surprising paradox the best kind of poetry was declared to be tragedy , a genre of recent Athenian invention and one exported on a limited ...
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... thoughts are reserved for her son . Vividly she pictures the fate that awaits an orphan , robbed of status and even of enough to eat . The name of Astyanax , suddenly introduced , applies this general picture to him . From the son she ...
... thoughts are reserved for her son . Vividly she pictures the fate that awaits an orphan , robbed of status and even of enough to eat . The name of Astyanax , suddenly introduced , applies this general picture to him . From the son she ...
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... thought that the roles are reversed for both the Trojans and their champion Hector can only drive home their plight . Achilles , bright yet death - bringing star , shows the contradictory aspects of heroism in a way that is worth any ...
... thought that the roles are reversed for both the Trojans and their champion Hector can only drive home their plight . Achilles , bright yet death - bringing star , shows the contradictory aspects of heroism in a way that is worth any ...
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... 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 , " would be denying its nature . 14 Repetition of ...
... 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 , " would be denying its nature . 14 Repetition of ...
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... thought , and is here the true son of his people . Apollo / Achilles ; Achilles / Hector ; Priam / Hecuba ; war / peace ; hate / love ; triumph / grief : these are the clashes that will generate Achilles ' ( and the listener's ) ...
... thought , and is here the true son of his people . Apollo / Achilles ; Achilles / Hector ; Priam / Hecuba ; war / peace ; hate / love ; triumph / grief : these are the clashes that will generate Achilles ' ( and the listener's ) ...
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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