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Epic
Contributor(s): Innes, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 0415587387     ISBN-13: 9780415587389
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $118.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 809.935
LCCN: 2012033101
Series: New Critical Idiom (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 7.8" (0.66 lbs) 192 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

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, children's 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.