10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIC-LIKE»
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In a good epic, like the Iliad, Achilles was the sort of man who would talk and act
and feel in a certain sort of way; in a bad epic, like the Cypria or the Aethiopis, he
was just a man to whom certain things happened to occur. This view conferred ...
John Bryan Hainsworth,
1991
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Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the
Epic
In the Homeric poems, there is no nation in the modern sense of the word: it can
refer to a tribal unit or a loose assembly of such units. In an imperialistic epic like
the Aeneid, the envisioned empire controls many small nations. And a religious ...
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Epic Succession and Dissension: Ovid, Metamorphoses ...
2.484- 493, and Aen. 7.641-646 and 10.163-165, all of which introduce
catalogues of warriors, all the while signaling the opening of epic action.
Schmitzer 1990, 273, n. 119, draws attention to one other epic-like invocation to
the Muses.
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The Book of Iran: A History of Persian Literature : Schools, ...
Religious Epic, like the Khavaran-namih of Ibn Hisam and the Urdibihisht-namih
of Surush. 4. Gnostic Epic, which is particular to Persian literature, like story of
Hallaj in Avar's Tadhkarat al-AwlIyya and his Mantiq o Tayr6. From the point of
view ...
5
The
Epic Film: Myth and History
Cinema thus gains the best of both worlds - it may take a genuine epic like
Homer's Odyssey or raise totally uncharismatic novels like Howard Fast's
Spartacus or Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur to epic status. This freedom, however,
imposes extra ...
6
Film and the Classical
Epic Tradition
Frequent attempts have been made to classify and pin down epic, like a butterfly
on a specimen board. The analogy is valid, for, we may say, such a procedure
requires its subject to be inert, and it may even kill it in the name of classification.
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The American
Epic: Transforming a Genre, 1770-1860
By striving to make an epic out of republicanism, rather than a heroic republican,
Barlow may have been attempting an impossibility. Lukacs offered a compelling
argument for the inevitable failure of any epic like The Columbiad: For the epic, ...
John P. McWilliams, Jr,
2009
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Gilgamesh
Epic and Old Testament Parallels
Shamash has entrusted into thy hand judgment and decision. Kings, rulers, and
princes lie prostrate before thee." A Summary of the Epic Like the Odyssey, the
Aeneid, and the Nibelungenlied, the Gilgamesh Epic opens with a brief resume
of ...
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Epic: Form, Content, and History
The great poets who composed epic, like us, were coming to terms with myth in a
historical and civilizational context, and therefore they—and this book—are
equally concerned with natural science, history, society, technology, economics,
law, ...
In England, similarly, Pope had managed to translate Homer, to admire Milton,
but himself to write only mock-epic, like the splendid Rape of the Lock. Voltaire,
assuming Milton is here writing mockheroic, not genuine epic, suggests that the ...
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'Risen,' New Movie About Jesus' Resurrection, Linked to Mel …
Whatever its fate, the official trailer for "Risen" certainly hints at an epic-like presentation of the biblical account — a story that will likely continue ... «Christian Post, May 15»