Twentieth-century Epic Novels

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University of Delaware Press, 2005 - 247 páginas
Every age that has produced literary epics has also produced variations on the elements that constitute the epic. 'Twentieth-Century Epic Novels' examines the most popular 20th-century manifestations of epic sensibilities by looking closely at five major examples of the 20th-century epic novel.

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Preface
9
Acknowledgments
13
Abbreviations
15
Approaching the Epic
19
Sholem Aschs Three Cities
55
Olivia Mannings Fortunes of War
89
Paul Scotts Raj Quartet
121
Edward Whittemores Jerusalem Quartet
157
Lawrence Durrells Alexandria Quartet
190
Notes
221
Works Cited
231
Index
241
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Página 73 - And He shall judge between the nations, And shall decide for many peoples; And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning-hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more.
Página 137 - Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.
Página 196 - Modern literature offers us no Unities, so I have turned to science and am trying to complete a four-decker novel whose form is based on the relativity proposition.
Página 222 - For as the image of each action stirreth and instructeth the mind, so the lofty image of such worthies most inflameth the mind with desire to be worthy, and informs with counsel how to be worthy.
Página 24 - The skill of artifice or office mean, Not that which justly gives heroic name To person or to poem.
Página 24 - Since first this subject for heroic song Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late ; Not sedulous by nature to indite Wars, hitherto the only argument Heroic deem'd ; chief mastery to dissect, With long and tedious havoc, fabled knights, In battles feign'd ; the better fortitude Of patience and heroic martyrdom Unsung ; or to describe races and games...
Página 33 - As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
Página 23 - Not sedulous by Nature to indite Warrs, hitherto the onely Argument Heroic deem'd, chief maistrie to dissect With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights 30 In Battels feign'd; the better fortitude Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom Unsung...

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