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Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780415587389
- ISBN-10: 0415587387
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: January 2013
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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