EPIC & EPOCH: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slight tape residue on binding, otherwise very good and clean. - Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Criteria for the Epic: Borders, Diversity, and Expansion, Van Kelly -- 1. The Ancient (Greek and Roman) Epic -- Information and Form: Homer, Achilles, and Statius, W. R. Johnson -- Sex, Drugs, and Poetry, Jenny Strauss Clay -- Homecoming and Hospitality: Recognition and the Construction of Identity in the Odyssey, Marylin A. Katz -- Reading Penelope, Sheila Murnaghan -- Eurycleia and Eurynome as Penelope�s Confidantes, Victoria Pedrick -- 2. Post-Classical Epic through the Renaissance -- Two Peaks of Parnassus: Dante�s Comedy and Heroic Poetry, J. K. Newman -- Spanish Epic of Revolt, Mercedes Vaquero -- Undifferentiation and Violence: Girard and the Sagas, George S. Tate -- Milton and Epic Revisionism, John T. Shawcross -- Boring Epic in Early Modern France, Ullrich Langer -- 3. Epic in Post-Renaissance Literature -- Toppling from Mount Olympus: The Romantic Hero, Allan H. Pasco -- Constructing a Larger Iliad: Ezra Pound and the Vicissitudes of Epic, Reed Way Dasenbrock -- Stalin and the Death of Epic: Mikhail Bakhtin, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, Frederick T. Griffiths and Stanley J. Rabinowitz -- Galdos and the Theory and Practice of Epic in Spain (1805-1914), Stephen Miller. ISBN 9780896723313