Catherine Bates

The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

Herausgeber: Bates, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry in a series of accessible essays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 639g
• ISBN-13: 9780521880947
• ISBN-10: 0521880947
• Artikelnr.: 29929415

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh A. R. George
2. Greek epic Jasper Griffin
3. Roman epic Peter Toohey
4. Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages Karl Reichl
5. Dante and the epic of transcendence John Freccero
6. Italian Renaissance epic Giuseppe Mazzotta
7. Camões's Os Lusíadas: the first modern epic George Monteiro
8. The Faerie Queene: Britain's national monument Catherine Bates
9. The seventeenth-century Protestant English epic David Loewenstein
10. Mock-heroic and English poetry Claude Rawson
11. Romantic re-appropriations of the epic Michael O'Neill
12. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modern epic John Whittier-Ferguson
13. Derek Walcott's Omeros Robert Hamner
14. Epic in translation Paul Merchant.