Roman Epic (Paperback, Revised)

Roman epic lays claim to being Western civilisation's prime literary form. This volume draws together 14 critically and methodologically distinct essays, focusing on particular epicists - their reaction to, influence on, and rewriting of each other. It examines the formation and transformation of Roman epic from its beginnings in the third century BC Saturnian poets Livius and Naevius, to the Renaissance Latin epic of Petrarch and Vida. What results is the revelation of Roman epic not only as Rome's highest poetic genre but as a self-consciously intertextual, primarily political form. The Roman epicist's creative exploitation of his predecessors is not restricted to stylistic similarities and generic codes, but often encompasses more important levels of social, moral and political meaning. In the Roman tradition the epic form shows an impetus to reform the celebratory values implicit in the form itself, admitting a plurality of interactive, often critical narrative voices. This book reveals how epic developed and critically considers the generic and literary tradition to which the texts belong.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1996
First published:	1993
Editors:	Anthony J. Boyle
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	346
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-14357-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-415-14357-8
Barcode:	9780415143578

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