ABOUT THIS BOOK

The literary epic and critical theories about the epic tradition are traced from Aristotle and Callimachus through Apollonius, Virgil, and their successors such as Chaucer and Milton to Eisenstein, Tolstoy, and Thomas Mann. Newman's revisionist critique will challenge all scholars, students, and general readers of the classics, comparative literature, and western literary traditions.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

John Kevin Newman is professor emeritus of classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a four-time medal winner for his original poems in Latin, and author of a number of books including Augustus and the New Poetry, Roman Catullus and the Modification of the Alexandrian Sensibility, and Augustan Propertius: The Recapitulation of a Genre.

REVIEWS

"A massive book of great learning that sweeps over a great deal of Western literary epic tradition."—Choice

"This is a valuable study which will have to be taken into account by all who deal with the topics and authors treated. . . . The argument is thought-provoking."—The Classical World

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

I. A Map of the Terrain

II. Aristotle, Callimachus and the Ancient Critical Tradition

III. Apollonius Rhodius

IV. Virgil

V. The Latin Epic after Virgil: Ovid to Statius

VI. The Critical Failure: Dante and Petrarch

VII: The Italian Tradition

VIII. The English Tradition: Chaucer and Milton

IX. The Modern Epic-I: Eisenstein and Pudovkin

X. The Modern Epic-II: Tolstoy and Thomas Mann

Glossary of Chritical Terms

Select Bibliography

Index

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