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American Modern(ist) Epic
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Adam Nemmers
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-12 - Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and ‘30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the Uni
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.
Modern Epic
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Franco Moretti
Categories: Epic literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Verso

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Having coined a new term modern epic, the author analyses the phenomenon, & attempts to situate the works of e.g. Joyce, Proust & Musil within our literary trad
The Bridge
Language: en
Pages: 120
Authors: Hart Crane
Categories: American poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America.
The Evolutions of Modernist Epic
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Václav Paris
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-07 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Modernist epic is more interesting and more diverse than we have supposed. As a radical form of national fiction it appeared in many parts of the world in the e