Twentieth-century Epic NovelsUniversity 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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... death of Sir Philip Sidney . After Sidney's death in 1586 , scores of elegies were written , and almost all of them relied on the standard elegiac conventions : mourning for the deceased , sadness for the living , and the hope that the ...
... death of Sir Philip Sidney . After Sidney's death in 1586 , scores of elegies were written , and almost all of them relied on the standard elegiac conventions : mourning for the deceased , sadness for the living , and the hope that the ...
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Theodore Louis Steinberg. his feeling that Sidney's death was an unnecessary waste , that Sidney's mili- tary derring - do was an abandonment of his poetic calling . Spenser's poem mourns as sincerely as any of the other elegies on ...
Theodore Louis Steinberg. his feeling that Sidney's death was an unnecessary waste , that Sidney's mili- tary derring - do was an abandonment of his poetic calling . Spenser's poem mourns as sincerely as any of the other elegies on ...
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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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Achilleus Aeneid Alexandria Quartet Asch Asch's Balkan Trilogy Balthazar Barbie battle become Beowulf British century certainly characters Clea Comedy course critics Dante Daphne Darley Darley's death divine Durrell's Empire epic hero epic novel father feel focus focuses genre Guy's Halperin Hektor heroic code Homer human Hurvitz ideal Iliad important India Jericho Mosaic Jerusalem Poker Jerusalem Quartet Jewish Jews Justine kind Kumar Lawrence Durrell Levant Trilogy literature live Manning's Merrick modern love Mountolive mythic never Nile Shadows Olivia Paul Scott Paul Scott's Raj Peace person perspective pivotal play poem Poetry Pringles problem Pursewarden Raj Quartet readers references Revolution role romance Rumania Russian says seems Sholem Asch Sholokhov Sinai Tapestry Stern story Strongbow tells things Three Cities tion Tolstoy Tolstoy's traditional Troy twentieth-century epic understand University Press volume Whittemore Whittemore's woman women words writing Yakimov Yiddish Zachary
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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...