Cassell's Encyclopædia of World Literature, Volume 1Sigfrid Henry Steinberg Funk & Wagnalls, 1954 - 2086 pagina's |
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Pagina 196
... epic is entirely alien are the blasé and the commercial . It is the primitive in epic which often first springs to mind , but there was little that was primitive in either the civilization or the poet that produced the Aeneid and in ...
... epic is entirely alien are the blasé and the commercial . It is the primitive in epic which often first springs to mind , but there was little that was primitive in either the civilization or the poet that produced the Aeneid and in ...
Pagina 198
... epic of Gilgamesh ( q.v. ) , which seems to have emerged in the 4th or 3rd millenium B.C. Indian epic may be very old , but the dating of the Mahābhārata and the Rāmā- yana ( qq.v. ) is extremely obscure . The epic tradition in India ...
... epic of Gilgamesh ( q.v. ) , which seems to have emerged in the 4th or 3rd millenium B.C. Indian epic may be very old , but the dating of the Mahābhārata and the Rāmā- yana ( qq.v. ) is extremely obscure . The epic tradition in India ...
Pagina 199
... epic proper , but its grandeur has a tone of the old heroic as well as of the spiritually lofty , its chosen image is that of a journey , and the most ancient of epic adventures , a des- cent into the underworld , is one basis of its ...
... epic proper , but its grandeur has a tone of the old heroic as well as of the spiritually lofty , its chosen image is that of a journey , and the most ancient of epic adventures , a des- cent into the underworld , is one basis of its ...
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