Epic Grandeur: Toward a Comparative Poetics of the Epic FROM THE PUBLISHER
Epic Grandeur: Toward A Comparative Poetics Of The Epic proposes a new concept of the epic. The book is based on the belief that he genre has been transforming itself throughout its history from conventional, war-oriented types to a new kind that promotes peace without having recourse to violent motifs.
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A reexamination of the epic arguing that the literary genre survives
in the 20th century as a transformed convention promoting peace
rather than war-oriented themes. Mori (comparative literature, U. of
Georgia) isolates the hero's attitude toward his mortality, his
commitment to the community, and dual dimensions of time and space as
the defining notions of epic literature, comparing John Keat's "The
Fall of Hyperion" and Miyazawa Kenji's "Gingatetsudo no Yoru (A
Night on the Galaxy Railroad)" as models of the modern, transitional
epic as well as emblems of the cultural differences and similarities
between East and West.
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