Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry by Risden, E. L.

Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786435418)

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Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry by Risden, E. L.

Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry

$39.95
Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry by Risden, E. L.

Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. It begins with three chapters on ancient poetry (including The Iliad and The Odyssey, the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Aeneid and the Bhagavad Gita). Subsequent chapters take up the main subject of the book, examining the evolution of English epic poetry from the anonymous Old English Beowulf to Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Milton's Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's The Prelude, Barett Browning's Aurora Leigh and Derek Walcott's 1990 poem Omeros.



Author: E. L. Risden
ISBN-10: 0786435410
ISBN-13: 9780786435418
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/19/2008 pg. 21
By E. L. Risden
By E. L. Risden
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E.L. Risden, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College, lives in De Pere, Wisconsin, where he continues to write literary and movie scholarship, speculative fiction, and occasional poetry.

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