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Epic (The New Critical Idiom) - Hardcover

Book 25 of 52: The New Critical Idiom

Innes, Paul

 
9780415587389: Epic (The New Critical Idiom)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415587387 ISBN 13: 9780415587389
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415587387
ISBN 13 
9780415587389
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192