The classical epic tradition / John Kevin Newman.

Author
Newman, John Kevin, 1928- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.
Description
x, 566 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Series
    Wisconsin studies in classics [More in this series]
    Notes
    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-551).
    Contents
    • A map of the terrain
    • Aristotle, Callimachus and the ancient critical tradition
    • Apollonius Rhodius
    • Virgil
    • The Latin epic after Virgil: Ovid to Statius
    • The critical failure: Dante and Petrarch
    • The Italian tradition
    • The English tradition: Chaucer and Milton
    • The modern epic - I: Eisenstein and Pudovkin
    • The modern epic - II: Tolstoy and Thomas Mann.
    ISBN
    0299105105 :
    LCCN
    85012460
    OCLC
    12724844
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