num_pages: 320
description: Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book.
language: English
title: Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre
titlecomplete: Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature)
publisher: Texas Tech University Press