Author:
Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973-
Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 259 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction: what is the epic? -- The Classical Age: beginnings -- The Middle Ages and Renaissance: epic in the Christian Era -- The eighteenth century: epic in the modern world -- The nineteenth cnetury: epic and the self -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: modernist epic -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries: epic film.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references with filmography (p. 242-253) and index.
