Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Book in Classical Literature)

by Margaret Beissinger (Editor), Margaret Beissinger (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $41.47

  This collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, mediaeval and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. The authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions.