The Cambridge Companion to the Epic

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Bates is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. Klappentext This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry in a series of accessible essays. Zusammenfassung Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Bates
• Assisted by: Catherine Bates (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521880947
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88094-7
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets