Epic : form, content, and history

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Label

Epic : form, content, and history

Title remainder

form, content, and history

Statement of responsibility

Frederick Turner

Creator

• Turner, Frederick, 1943-
• Turner, Frederick, 1943-

Subject

• Literary form -- History
• Epic literature -- History and criticism
• Myth in literature
• Literature and society
• Human behavior in literature

Language

eng

Summary

"Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Everyman and the radical exception; and establishes the complex quest underlying all human action. Epic illustrates that these ingredients of epic storytelling are universal cultural elements, in existence across multiple remote geographical locations, historical eras, ethnic and linguistic groups, and levels of technological and economic development. Frederick Turner argues that epic, despite being scoffed at and neglected for over sixty years, is the most fundamental and important of all literary forms and thereby deserves serious critical attention. It is the source and origin of all other literature, the frame within which any story is possible. The mission of this book is to repair gaps in the literary understanding of epic studies -- and offer permission to future epic writers and composers."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PN56.E65

LC item number

T87 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography