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01/1994. pages.
0896723313
978-0-89672-331-3

Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre

Edited by Steven M. Oberhelman, Van Kelly, and Richard Golsan

Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book.