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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 Tolkientexts from poems, novels, children's literature, tv, theatre and film themes and motifs such as romance, tragedy, religion, journeys and the supernatural. Offering n.;Front Cover; Epic; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Epic literary history; Ancient and classical epic; From the heroic towards romance and allegory; The Renaissance and the early novel; Epic in the age of the individual; 2. Ancient and classical epic; Sumerian and Akkadian epic; The Bible; Greek epic; Latin epic; The Sanskrit epics; 3. From the heroic towards romance and allegory; The Shah-Namah; Heroic epic and saga; The Celts: tales from Ireland and Wales; Epic and the Chansons de Geste; Epic and romance; Epic and allegory.

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Author

Innes, Paul;

Publisher

Routledge;Taylor and Francis

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136158537

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Romance