LEADER 03666nam 22005412 450 001 996202479403316 005 20151109030845.0 010 $a1-139-80166-X 010 $a1-139-00292-9 035 $a(CKB)2590000000003625 035 $a(MH)012548757-6 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000456038 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11268168 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000456038 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10406643 035 $a(PQKB)10318854 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139002929 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2050352 035 $a(PPN)167521861 035 $a(EXLCZ)992590000000003625 100 $a20110114d2010|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to the epic /$fedited by Catherine Bates$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-70736-6 311 $a0-521-88094-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 264-273) and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface Catherine Bates; 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh Andrew George; 2. Greek epic Jasper Griffin; 3. Roman epic Peter Toohey; 4. Heroic epic poetry in the Middle Ages Karl Reichl; 5. Dante and the epic of transcendence John Freccero; 6. Italian Renaissance epic Giuseppe Mazzotta; 7. Camo?es's Os Lusi;adas: the first modern epic George Monteiro; 8. The Faerie Queene: Britain's national monument Catherine Bates; 9. The seventeenth-century Protestant English epic David Loewenstein; 10. Mock heroic and English poetry Claude Rawson; 11. Romantic re-appropriations of the epic Michael O'Neill; 12. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and the modern epic John Whittier-Ferguson; 13. Derek Walcott's Omeros Robert Hamner; 14. Epic in translation Paul Merchant; Guide to further reading; Index. 330 $aEvery great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genres, including its own parody in the form of mock-epic. This Companion surveys over four thousand years of epic poetry from the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's postcolonial Omeros. The list of epic poets analysed here includes some of the greatest writers in literary history in Europe and beyond: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Camo?es, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats and Pound, among others. Each essay, by an expert in the field, pays close attention to the way these writers have intimately influenced one another to form a distinctive and cross-cultural literary tradition. Unique in its coverage of the vast scope of that tradition, this book is an essential companion for students of literature of all kinds and in all ages. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 606 $aEpic poetry$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEpic poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.1/32 702 $aBates$b Catherine$f1964- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996202479403316 996 $aThe Cambridge companion to the epic$92493205 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress