The history of the epic /
Johns-Putra, Adeline,1973-
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references with filmography (p. 242-253) and index.
Introduction: what is the epic? -- The Classical Age: beginnings -- The Middle Ages and Renaissance: epic in the Christian Era -- The eighteenth century: epic in the modern world -- The nineteenth cnetury: epic and the self -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: modernist epic -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: epic film.
Epic literature