Epic (The New Critical Idiom)
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Epic (The New Critical Idiom)
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Postmodernism
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415587389
- ISBN-10
- 0415587387
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ISBN: 0415587387
Author: Innes, Paul
Condition: New
This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Milton, Cervantes, Keats, Byron, Eliot, Walcott and Tolkien texts from poems, novels, childrens literature, tv, theatre and film themes and motifs such as romance, tragedy, religion, journeys and the supernatural.Offering new directions for the future and addressing the place of epic in both English-language texts and World Literature, this handy book takes you on a fascinating guided tour through the epic.
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