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Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Margaret Beissinger
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-03-31 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 277
Authors: Catherine Ware
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The historical importance of Claudian as writer of panegyric and propaganda for the court of Honorius is well established but his poetry has been comparatively
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Robert Auty
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher: MHRA

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Epic in American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Christopher N. Phillips
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05 - Publisher: JHU Press

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This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.
Epic and History
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: David Konstan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-27 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

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With contributions from leading scholars, this is a uniquecross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide rangeof cultures and time periods, which p