Epic

<p>This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: </p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>a wide range of writers including Homer Vergil Ovid Dante Chaucer Milton Cervantes Keats Byron Eliot Walcott and Tolkien</li> <li>texts from poems novels children's literature tv theatre and film </li> <li>themes and motifs such as romance tragedy religion journeys and the supernatural. </li> <ul> </ul> </ul><p>Offering new directions for the future and addressing the place of epic in both English-language texts and World Literature this handy book takes you on a fascinating guided tour through the epic. </p>