| The Cambridge Companion to the Epic Contributor(s): Bates, Catherine (Author), Bates, Catherine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521880947 ISBN-13: 9780521880947 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 809.132 |
| LCCN: 2009051399 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 9" (1.32 lbs) 298 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Cam es, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bates, Catherine: - Catherine Bates is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. |
