Robert Crossley is a literary critic, editor, and biographer and former chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Whatever Happened to the Epic? [Introduction to the fate of epic in the past three centuries and the influence of Milton]; Chapter Two Leaving Paradise [The final books of Paradise Lost and the end of an epic tradition]; Chapter Three An Epic Told in Letters [The migration of epic to the novel in Richardson's Clarissa]; Chapter Four Prospects and Living Pictures [Epic history-writing in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]; Chapter Five Analyzing a Soul [Wordsworth's Prelude and Autobiographical Epic]; Chapter Six Epic Heroinism [The Icelandic Völsunga Saga and Wagner's Ring]; Chapter Seven Cinematic Spectacle and the Hero [The epic in film: Hollywood in the 1960s and Abel Gance's silent Napoléon]; Chapter Eight Paradise Sought: The African American Odyssey [The Great Migration in memoir poetry fiction and Jacob Lawrence's paintings]; Chapter Nine Imaginary History and Epic Fantasy [Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion]; Chapter Ten The Epic in Future Tense [Frederick Turner's three epic poems: The New World Genesis and Apocalypse]; Chapter Eleven Eleven Heaven and Hell Reimagined [Tony Kushner's Angels in America]; Chapter Twelve Translating and Recentering Old Epics [Contemporary translations of ancient epics and fictional adaptations by Margaret Atwood Ursula LeGuin Madeline Miller Maria Dahvana Headley]; Index
List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Whatever Happened to the Epic? [Introduction to the fate of epic in the past three centuries and the influence of Milton]; Chapter Two Leaving Paradise [The final books of Paradise Lost and the end of an epic tradition]; Chapter Three An Epic Told in Letters [The migration of epic to the novel in Richardson's Clarissa]; Chapter Four Prospects and Living Pictures [Epic history-writing in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire]; Chapter Five Analyzing a Soul [Wordsworth's Prelude and Autobiographical Epic]; Chapter Six Epic Heroinism [The Icelandic Völsunga Saga and Wagner's Ring]; Chapter Seven Cinematic Spectacle and the Hero [The epic in film: Hollywood in the 1960s and Abel Gance's silent Napoléon]; Chapter Eight Paradise Sought: The African American Odyssey [The Great Migration in memoir poetry fiction and Jacob Lawrence's paintings]; Chapter Nine Imaginary History and Epic Fantasy [Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion]; Chapter Ten The Epic in Future Tense [Frederick Turner's three epic poems: The New World Genesis and Apocalypse]; Chapter Eleven Eleven Heaven and Hell Reimagined [Tony Kushner's Angels in America]; Chapter Twelve Translating and Recentering Old Epics [Contemporary translations of ancient epics and fictional adaptations by Margaret Atwood Ursula LeGuin Madeline Miller Maria Dahvana Headley]; Index
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