Classical Epic Tradition.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (578 pages)
- Wisconsin Studies in Classics Series .
- Wisconsin Studies in Classics Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. A Map of the Terrain -- II. Aristotle, Callimachus and the Ancient Critical Tradition -- III. Apollonius Rhodius -- IV. Virgil -- V. The Latin Epic after Virgil: Ovid to Statius -- VI. The Critical Failure: Dante and Petrarch -- VII: The Italian Tradition -- VIII. The English Tradition: Chaucer and Milton -- IX. The Modern Epic-I: Eisenstein and Pudovkin -- X. The Modern Epic-II: Tolstoy and Thomas Mann -- Glossary of Chritical Terms -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Epic literature-History and criticism. Literature-History and criticism.