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1 online resource |
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Preface: Through Smoking Pyres; 1. Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves: Violence, Sex, and Recursive Desire in Epic Tradition; 2. Warda and Worca: Oral Epics and Preoedipal Concerns; 3. Twice Faithless Troy: The Happy Substitute; 4. Fierce Loves and Faithless Wars: Milton, Macpherson, and the Inverted Epic; 5. With Half Unravel'd Web: The Fragmented Epic; 6. Sleeping with the Enemy: Women and Epic; 7. In This Late Century: Radical Pluralism and the Future of Epos; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Epic has often been seen as a dead genre, intrinsically patriarchal and nationalistic. Furthermore, the psychological model most frequently applied to the relations between poets has been a violent one--the Freudian masterplot of Oedipus slaying the father to possess the mother. The limited usefulness of such simplistic explanations of epic is readily apparent when confronted with the continuing production of epic poetry long after its so-called death; when confronted with the contemporary drive toward epic among women poets, people of color, and postcolonial poets; and when faced with epic's |
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Epic literature -- History and criticism
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Desire in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Desire in literature
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Epic literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780817388867 |
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0817388869 |
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