Epic Ambitions in Modern Times - From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Robert Crossley is a literary critic, editor, and biographer and former chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Robert Crossley, Crossley Robert
• Edition: Anthem Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 16.08.2022
• EAN: 9781839985485
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-548-5
• Pages: 230
• Thème: Anthem World Epic and Romance
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Interdisciplinary studies, Literary studies: general, Kushner's Angels in America and Madeline Miller's