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Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature) - Hardcover
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.
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The presentation of women in Homer, judicial processes in medieval Icelandic sagas, and the politics of Ezra Pound and Boris Pasternak are among the topics of the 15 essays. The perspectives and approaches include deconstructionism, literary history, and Girardian criticism. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Victoria Pedrick is associate professor in the Department of Classics at Georgetown University. Steven M. Oberhelman is professor in the Department of European and Classical Languages at Texas A&M University.
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- PublisherTexas Tech University Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0896723313
- ISBN 13 9780896723313
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages313
- EditorGolsan Richard
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Book Description Original hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Studies in comparative literature ; 24. VI, 313 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slight tape residue on binding, otherwise very good and clean. - Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Criteria for the Epic: Borders, Diversity, and Expansion, Van Kelly -- 1. The Ancient (Greek and Roman) Epic -- Information and Form: Homer, Achilles, and Statius, W. R. Johnson -- Sex, Drugs, and Poetry, Jenny Strauss Clay -- Homecoming and Hospitality: Recognition and the Construction of Identity in the Odyssey, Marylin A. Katz -- Reading Penelope, Sheila Murnaghan -- Eurycleia and Eurynome as Penelope's Confidantes, Victoria Pedrick -- 2. Post-Classical Epic through the Renaissance -- Two Peaks of Parnassus: Dante's Comedy and Heroic Poetry, J. K. Newman -- Spanish Epic of Revolt, Mercedes Vaquero -- Undifferentiation and Violence: Girard and the Sagas, George S. Tate -- Milton and Epic Revisionism, John T. Shawcross -- Boring Epic in Early Modern France, Ullrich Langer -- 3. Epic in Post-Renaissance Literature -- Toppling from Mount Olympus: The Romantic Hero, Allan H. Pasco -- Constructing a Larger Iliad: Ezra Pound and the Vicissitudes of Epic, Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Stalin and the Death of Epic: Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz -- Galdos and the Theory and Practice of Epic in Spain (1805-1914), Stephen Miller. ISBN 9780896723313 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 698. Seller Inventory # 1197270
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