Epic and Epoch
Subtitle: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Contributors: Richard J. Golsan (Editor)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: July 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780896723313
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets; Literary Collections; Comparative Literature; Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; General; Epic poetry; History and criticism
First sentence: My chief purpose in this paper is to suggest some possible means of dismantling what has come to seem a no longer very helpful literary bipolarity, that of oral epic/written epic.