American Epic - Transforming a Genre, 1770-1860

Klappentext McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into new! open genres. Zusammenfassung John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Imitations: Homer's Tyrannous Eye: 1. Invocations; 2. Freedom's heroes; 3. Freedom's fools; 4. A white achilles for the West?; Part II. Transformations: The Epic in New Genres: 5. Red Achilles, red Satan; 6. The destroying angel; 7. Till a better epic comes along; 8. 'An epic of democracy?'; Prospect; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: John P. McWilliams, John P. Jr. McWilliams, Jr McWilliams, John P. McWilliams Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107020
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10702-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies