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The History of the Epic
This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.
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The History of the Epic
This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.
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The History of the Epic

The History of the Epic

by A. Johns-Putra
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The History of the Epic

The History of the Epic

by A. Johns-Putra

Overview

This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403912121
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/11/2006
Series: Palgrave Histories of Literature
Edition description: 2006
Pages: 259
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ADELINE JOHNS-PUTRA is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. She is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (2001), and has also published articles on gender and genre in the Romantic age.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction: What is the Epic? The Classical Age: Beginnings The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Epic in the Christian Era The Eighteenth Century: Epic in a Modern World The Nineteenth Century: Epic and the Self The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Modernist Epic The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Epic Film Further Reading Index
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