The Epic : developments in criticism : a casebook
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The Epic : developments in criticism : a casebook
（Casebook series）
Macmillan, 1990
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 205-206
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Five great epics are the focus of attention in this volume: Homer's "Iliad", Virgil's "Aeneid", Milton's "Paradise Lost", Wordsworth's "Prelude" and Joyce's "Ulysses". In his introduction, the editor surveys th e development of the epic and discusses the successive innovations in content and values made by its writers. He observes that the variety and vitality of epic are reflected in the wide range of critical approaches made to these works. His election of early commentators includes, among others, Sidney, Milton, Dryden, Fielding, Wordsworth and Arnold. More recent and contemporary critical approaches are represented by extracts from the writings of C.M. Bowra, Gilbert Highet, Northrop Frye, E.M.W. Tillyard, George de Forest Lord, G.K. Hunter, Andrew Fichter, Martin Mueller, Willard Spiegelman and (in an essay especially written for this volume) G.J.B. Watson.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: From Sydney to Abercrombie: Sir Philip Sydney (1598)
- Ben Jonson (1620-35?)
- John Milton (1641, 1644, 1667)
- Sir Richard Blackmore (1695)
- John Dryden (1697, 1700)
- Boileau (trans. 1714)
- Joseph Additon (1712)
- Alexander Pope (1720)
- Henry Fielding (1742)
- William Wordsworth (1805)
- Sir Walter Scott (1824)
- Matthew Arnold (1861)
- W.P.Ker (1897)
- W.Macneile Dixon (1912)
- Lascelles Abercrombie (1914, 1925). Part 2 More recent criticism, C.M.Bowra
- some characteristics of literary epic (1945)
- Gilbert Highet - Beowulf (1949)
- Northrop Frye - theory of Genres (1957)
- E.M.W.Tillyard - the epic spirit (1958)
- George de Forest Lord - heroic mockery (1977)
- G.K.Hunter - narrative and meaning in Paradise Lost (1980)
- Andrew Fichter - the dynastic epic (1982)
- Martin Mueller - oral poetry - the Iliad and the modern reader (1984)
- Willard Spiegelman - some versions of heroism (1985)
- G.J.B.Watson - James Joyce's Ulysses - epic novel (1989).
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