Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre

Portada
Steven M. Oberhelman, Van Kelly, Richard Joseph Golsan
Texas Tech University Press, 1994 - 313 páginas
Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book.
 

Páginas seleccionadas

Contenido

Introduction
1
Homer Achilles and Statius
25
Sex Drugs and Poetry
40
Recognition
49
Reading Penelope
76
Eurycleia and Eurynome as Penelopes Confidantes
97
Dantes Comedy
119
Spanish Epic of Revolt
146
Girard and the Sagas
164
Milton and Epic Revisionism
186
Boring Epic in Early Modern France
208
The Romantic Hero
233
and the Vicissitudes of Epic
248
Nadezhda Mandelstam Boris Pasternak
267
Notes on Authors
311
Derechos de autor

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Información bibliográfica