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Paperback. This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. It traces epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
The New Critical Idiom
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415587396
SKU
V9780415587396
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99-2
About Paul Innes
Paul Innes is a senior lecturer in adult and continuing education at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on Shakespeare, early modern literature and literary theory.
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