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Exemplary Epic

Author : Ben Tipping
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191576409
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Epic written by Ben Tipping and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The force of example was a distinctive determiner of Roman identity. However, examples always rely upon the response of an audience, and are dependent upon context. Even where the example presented is positive, we cannot always suppress any negative associations it may also carry. In this study of the representation of certain central characters in Silius Italicus' Punica, Ben Tipping considers the virtues and vices they embody, their status as exemplars, and the process by which Silius as epic poet heroizes, demonizes, and establishes models. Tipping argues that example is a vital source of significance within the Punica, but also an inherently unstable mode, the lability of which affects both Silius' epic heroes and his villainous Hannibal.

Exemplary Traits

Author : J. Mira Seo
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199734283
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Traits written by J. Mira Seo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplary Traits examines how Roman poets used models dynamically to create character, and how their referential approach to character reveals them mobilizing the literary tradition.

Structures of Epic Poetry

Author : Christiane Reitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110492598
Total Pages : 2756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Structures of Epic Poetry by : Christiane Reitz

Download or read book Structures of Epic Poetry written by Christiane Reitz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 2756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.

The History of the Epic

Author : A. Johns-Putra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230595723
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Epic written by A. Johns-Putra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a history of the epic from the classical age to the present day. It deals not just with the well-know epics of antiquity and the Renaissance, but also pursues developments in more recent literature and film. It offers an exploration of the changes that have taken place in the genre from Homer to Hollywood.

Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome

Author : Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640443
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome written by Rebecca Langlands and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking study conveys the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism. Its account of 'exemplary ethics' explores how and what Romans learnt from these moral exempla, arguing that they disseminated widely not only core values such as courage and loyalty, but also key ethical debates and controversies which are still relevant for us today. Exemplary ethics encouraged controversial thinking, creative imitation, and a critical perspective on moral issues, and it plays an important role in Western philosophical thought. The model of exemplary ethics developed here is based on a comprehensive survey of Latin literature, and its innovative approach also synthesizes methodologies from disciplines such as contemporary philosophy, educational theory, and cultural memory studies. It offers a new and robust framework for the study of Roman exempla that will also be valuable for the study of moral exempla in other settings.

The Epic Gaze

Author : Helen Lovatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016118
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Epic Gaze written by Helen Lovatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century

Author : Fiona Macintosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198804210
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century written by Fiona Macintosh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.--Publisher description.

Epic and Epoch

Author : Steven M. Oberhelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Epic and Epoch written by Steven M. Oberhelman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Echoes of the Epic

Author : David P. Schenck
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479220
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Epic written by David P. Schenck and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of fourteen original essays and one poem in honor of the prominent medievalist Gerard J. Brault, upon the occasion of his retirement from teaching at the Pennsylvania State University. World-renowned for his contributions to the French medieval epic (in particular "La Chanson de Roland") and French-Canadian cultural studies, Professor Brault is affectionately remembered as "Mr. Song of Roland" by his colleagues for his unique interpretation of Roland as a triumphant christian hero, rather than a tragic feudal warrior. Among the friend, former students, colleagues, and admirers who contributed to this festschrift are; William Calin (preface), Jeanette Beer, Keight Busby, Kimberlee Campbell, Robert Francis Cook, Bernard Guidot, Edward Heinemann, Catherine Jones, Hans-Erich Keller, Donald Maddox, Andre de Mandach, Emanuel Mickel, Rupert Pickens, Jean Subrenat, Joan Williamson, Jacques Ribard, and the editors, David and Mary Jane Schenck. All essays center on aspects of "La Chanson de Roland" and the French medieval epic in general.

Epic Adventures

Author : Jan Jansen
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825867584
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Epic Adventures written by Jan Jansen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many adventures of the "epic" in modern times are fascinating topics in themselves. The Romantics claimed that every self-respecting nation should, at some time, have had one and they set out to reconstruct these epics for political as well as cultural reasons. Such epics represented earlier stages in the development of nation-states and in this modern world they were, for a long time, hard to appreciate. The introduction of tape recorders, however, brought the epic back in the limelight. It became fashionable for scholars to record long oral narratives, and to present them as long written poems that reflected deeply ingrained ideas. Because of this technology, the idea of the epic was revitalized. This volume presents critical analyses of epics in Sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, South-East Asia, Medieval Europe, and America and discusses the process of revitalization, sometimes even invention, of epics in particular historical, political, and academic contexts. Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Henk M.J. Maier is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania of the University of Leiden, Netherlands.

The Choice of Odysseus

Author : Sarah Van der Laan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198778295
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Choice of Odysseus written by Sarah Van der Laan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the Odyssey by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic.

Troilus and Cressida

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101160640
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic tragedy of politics and war, honor and love—along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including: • an original Introduction to Troilus and Cressida • incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers • photographs of key RSC productions • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.

Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)

Author : Elisabeth Schedel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522670
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479) written by Elisabeth Schedel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.

The Edinburgh Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

David Hare

Author : Hersh Zeifman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135744459
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book David Hare written by Hersh Zeifman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven screenplays for film and television, one might be surprised by the fact that this leading English artist is not yet fifty years old. He was only twenty-two when his first play was performed by the Portable Theatre, and he was a major voice on the British stage before he was thirty. The present volume is the first major collection of essays devoted to Hare, and its editor, Hersh Zeifman, who is a professor at York University, Toronto, is well-qualified to assemble and supervise such a significant undertaking. As co-editor of the prestigious journal, Modern Drama, he has been exposed to all the major authors and topics of modem theatre and is ideally positioned to discern Hare's pivotal role on the contemporary stage.

The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹

Author : Jean-Michel Hulls
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110717999
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Search for the Self in Statius' ›Thebaid‹ written by Jean-Michel Hulls and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this project is to provide a sustained analysis of the concept of ‘self’ in Statius’ Thebaid. It is this project’s contention that the poem is profoundly interested in ideas of identity and selfhood. The poem stages itself as a metapoetic exploration of the difficulties for a belated epicist in finding a place in the literary canon; it shows the impossibility of squaring large-scale epic poetics with small-scale, finely-wrought Callimacheanism; it reflects the violent disjunction between Statius’ authorial pose as a poet without power and the extreme violence of his poetics; it opens up the intricacies of constructing original, coherent characters out of intertextual, exemplary models. The central tenet of the project is that Statius in the Thebaid stages his own 'death', but does so that his poem may live. This book is intended for an academic audience including undergraduate and graduate students as well as specialists in the field. Although the project will be of primary importance to readers of Flavian literature, it will also be of interest to those who study intertextuality and characterisation in Roman literature more generally, selfhood and identity in Roman literature and culture and the reception of Roman literature.

Thunder and Lament

Author : Timothy A. Joseph
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197582141
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Thunder and Lament written by Timothy A. Joseph and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lucan's epic poem Pharsalia tells the story of the cataclysmic "end of Rome" through the victory of Julius Caesar and Caesarism in the civil wars of 49-48 BCE. This book argues that Lucan's poetic agenda moves in lockstep with his narrative arc, as he fashions the Pharsalia to mark the momentous end of the epic genre. In order to accomplish the closure of the genre, Lucan engages pervasively and polemically with the very first works of Greek and Roman epic - inverting, undoing, and closing off many of the tropes and themes introduced in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and in the foundational Latin epic poems by Livius Andronicus, Naevius, and most of all Ennius. By looking at Lucan's effort to "surpass the poets of old" - a phrase Statius would use of his achievement - this study broadens our appreciation of Lucan's poetic ambitions and accomplishment. Statius also read Lucan as a poet who both thunders and laments, and this book makes the case that Lucan closes off epic's beginnings through not just gestures of thundering poetic violence but also a transformation and expansion of the traditional epic mode of lament. In his story of violent Roman self-destruction and the lamentation that accompanies it, Lucan at the same time uproots and marks the end of the epic song"--