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Love, War, and Classical Tradition in the Early Modern Transatlantic World: Alonso De Ercilla and Edmund Spenser

By Cyrus Moore

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Hardcover:

9780866984928 | Mrts, December 31, 2014, cover price $68.00

Epic and History

With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. The first book to gain new insights into the topic of âepic and historyâ through in-depth cross-cultural comparisons Covers epic traditions across the globe and across a wide range of time periods Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by two internationally regarded scholars An important reference for scholars and students interested in history and literature across a broad range of disciplines Â

By Kurt A. Raaflaub (editor)

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9781405193078 | Blackwell Pub, January 19, 2010, cover price $181.95 | About this edition: With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry.

Paperback:

9781118785119 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2014, cover price $53.95

Miscellaneous:

9781444315646 | Blackwell Pub, November 16, 2009, cover price $149.95

Aspects of the Epic

By Tom Winnifrith

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9780312057244 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1983, cover price $29.95

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9781349058136 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $69.99

Film and the Classical Epic Tradition

By Joanna Paul

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9780199542925 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 5, 2013, cover price $150.00

Epic: Form, Content, and History

Product Description: Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Everyman and the radical exception; and establishes the complex quest underlying all human action...read more

By Frederick Turner

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9781412849449 | Transaction Pub, October 18, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Epic does many things.

Literary Form As Postcolonial Critique: Epic Proportions

Product Description: Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that these works disrupt and undermine the traditions of particular forms and genres, and most notably the expectations attached to the prose novel, poetry, and epic...read more

By Katherine Burkitt

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9781409405993 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 30, 2012, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels.

The Hero's Quest

By Bernard Schweizer (editor)

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9781429837378 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, September 15, 2012), cover price $95.00

Elle s'etend l'epopee / The Epics Expands: Relecture et ouverture du corpus epique / Rereading & Widening the Epic Corpus

By Vincent Dussol (editor)

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9789052018812 | Bilingual edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 24, 2012), cover price $74.95

Epic

Product Description: 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, childrenâs literature, tv, theatre and film themes and motifs such as romance, tragedy, religion, journeys and the supernatural...read more

By Paul Innes

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9780415587389 | Routledge, March 12, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies.

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9780415587396 | Routledge, March 12, 2013, cover price $26.95

Ruhm Und Unsterblichkeit: Heldenepik Im Kulturvergleich

By Konrad Meisig (editor)

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9783447061995 | Otto Harrassowitz, September 30, 2010, cover price $59.00

Epic And Empire in Nineteenth-century Britain

Product Description: In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world. Simon Dentith explores the relationship between epic and the evolution of Britain's national identity in the nineteenth century up to the apparent demise of all notions of heroic warfare in the catastrophe of the First World War...read more

By Simon Dentith

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9780521862653 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2006), cover price $114.99 | About this edition: In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world.

Paperback:

9780521123570 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 19, 2009), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In the nineteenth century, epic poetry in the Homeric style was widely seen as an ancient and anachronistic genre, yet Victorian authors worked to recreate it for the modern world.

Companion To Ancient Epic

By John Miles Foley (editor)

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9781405105248 | Blackwell Pub, September 23, 2005, cover price $239.95

Paperback:

9781405188388, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | New edition (Blackwell Pub, November 10, 2008), cover price $63.95

Miscellaneous:

9781405153041, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | Blackwell Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $194.95

Miscellaneous:

9780470996614, titled "A Companion to Ancient Epic" | Onl edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 25, 2008), cover price $200.00

The Stories We Tell: Composing in a Decomposing World

Product Description: The standard genres of the epic and the novel have undergone dramatic transformations in our unstable age. The author cogently examines these new frms using many examples from world literature.

By Ruth Newton

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9781890357184 | Florida Academic Pr, June 30, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The standard genres of the epic and the novel have undergone dramatic transformations in our unstable age.

The History of the Epic

Product Description: This is a narrative history of the development of the genre from antiquity into the present day. The volume parallels the development of the epic with wider historical and cultural developments, providing detailed readings of key texts, and, while structured chronologically, tracing a series of themes through the development of the genre...read more

By Adeline Johns-Putra

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9781403912121 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 5, 2006, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This is a narrative history of the development of the genre from antiquity into the present day.

Twentieth-century Epic Novels

By Theodore L. Steinberg

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9780874138894 | Univ of Delaware Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $48.50

The Epic

A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest epic works in the Western literary tradition, including 'The Iliad,' 'The Aeneid,' 'Beowulf,' 'The Divine Comedy,' 'Paradise Lost,' and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.'

By Harold Bloom

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9780791082294 | Chelsea House Pub, December 1, 2004, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest epic works in the Western literary tradition, including 'The Iliad,' 'The Aeneid,' 'Beowulf,' 'The Divine Comedy,' 'Paradise Lost,' and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.

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9780791083680 | Chelsea House Pub, May 20, 2005, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest epic works in the Western literary tradition, including 'The Iliad,' 'The Aeneid,' 'Beowulf,' 'The Divine Comedy,' 'Paradise Lost,' and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.

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9781417639267, titled "Epic" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2004, cover price $63.55 | About this edition: A collection of critical writings about some of the greatest epic works in the Western literary tradition, including 'The Iliad,' 'The Aeneid,' 'Beowulf,' 'The Divine Comedy,' 'Paradise Lost,' and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.

Rituals of Literature: Joyce, Dante, Aquinas, and the Tradition of Christian Epics

Product Description: The tradition of Christian epics, born out of Biblical stories and Homeric poems, counts among its most influential exponents Dante, Malory, Tasso, Spenser, Milton, Blake, Goethe, and Joyce (along with Virgil as its "founding father")...read more

By Gian Balsamo

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9780838755495 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The tradition of Christian epics, born out of Biblical stories and Homeric poems, counts among its most influential exponents Dante, Malory, Tasso, Spenser, Milton, Blake, Goethe, and Joyce (along with Virgil as its "founding father").

Gastmahlszenen in Der Antiken Epik Von Homer Bis Claudian: Diachrone Untersuchungen Zur Szenentypik

Product Description: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Westf'alische Wilhelms-Universit'at in M'unster, 2002.

By Anja Bettenworth

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9783525252529 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, April 13, 2004, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Westf'alische Wilhelms-Universit'at in M'unster, 2002.

The Classical Epic Tradition

Product Description: The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By J. K. Newman

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9780299105105 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 15, 1986, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann.

Paperback:

9780299105143 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann.

The Epic Voice

Product Description: All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alan D. Hodder (editor) and Robert Emmet Meagher (editor)

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9780275976040 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2002, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience.

Paperback:

9780275976057 | Praeger Pub Text, March 30, 2002, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience.

Epics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics

Entries for epics from around the world include such information as plot summary, brief biography, character analyses, critical overview, study questions, and discussion of themes (view table of contents)

By Elizabeth Bellalouna (editor) and Marie Lazzari (editor)

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9780787627836 | Gale Group, November 1, 2000, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: Entries for epics from around the world include such information as plot summary, brief biography, character analyses, critical overview, study questions, and discussion of themes

9780787616854, titled "Epics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics" | Gale Group, September 1, 1997, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Entries for epics from around the world include such information as plot summary, brief biography, character analyses, critical overview, study questions, and discussion of themes

Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community

Product Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret H. Beissinger (editor), Jane Tylus (editor) and Susanne L. Wofford (editor)

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9780520210370 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history.

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9780520210387 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $31.95

Between Two Armies: The Place of the Duel in Epic Culture

Product Description: Epic poetry depicts single combat between champions as a substitute for pitched battle. By analyzing poetic representations of warfare in sources such as "Nibelungenlied", "Beowulf", "The Iliad" and "Odyssey", "Hildebrandslied" and The Bible, this study reconstructs the circumstances under which the duel emerges as a mechanism for avoiding catastrophic battlefield losses...read more

By Victor Morris Udwin

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9789004110380 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 1998, cover price $178.00 | About this edition: Epic poetry depicts single combat between champions as a substitute for pitched battle.

Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic

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By Masaki Mori

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9780791432013 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $53.50

History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic

By Michael Murrin

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9780226554037 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $67.00

Paperback:

9780226554051 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $34.00

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