...Marc Bizer It had been the dream of the sixteenth-century Pléiade poets to glorify their country and literature by composing a “long French poem,” a term that designated a genre resembling epic but that also included romance. In the 1550s, not only Pierre de Ronsard, who had received an official...

...Heinz Politzer Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 HOW EPIC IS BERTOLT BRECHT’S EPIC THEATER? By HEINZPOLITZER When Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, on August 14, 1956, he left behind an impressive literary work, a new method...

...Gordon Teskey The Ruins of Allegory: “Paradise Lost” and the Metamorphosis of Epic Convention . By Catherine Gimelli Martin. Durham,N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. xii + 385 pp. $69.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. © 2000 University of Washington 2000 MLQ 61.2-05Reviews.ak 5/26/00 5:16 PM...

...George W. Umphrey Arturo Torres-Ríoseco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 279. $2.25. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 240 Reviews The Epic of Latin-American Literature. By ARTUROTORRES- RfosEco. New York : Oxford University Press...

...Hoyt Trowbridge H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Publications in English, Vol. XV, 1944. Pp. xiv + 396. $4.00. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 The Theory of the Epic in England, 1650-1800. By H. T. SI~EDES- BERG, JR. Berkeley...

...Adam Roberts Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse, 1790 – 1910 . By Herbert F. Tucker. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 737 pp. University of Washington 2009 Adam Roberts is professor of nineteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published...

... of markets and publics in early modern Europe. Richard Hakluyt’s Navigations in Time: History, Epic, and Empire David Harris Sacks udged in terms of its literary reputation as well as its own expressed Jintentions, Richard Hakluyt’s often celebrated Principal Navigations of the English...

...G. W. Pigman, III David Quint. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. x + 433 pp. $49.50 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Formcfim Virgil to Milton. By David Quint. Princeton, N.J...

...Gordon Braden Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp. $53.00. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Reviews Epic Romance: Homer to Milton. By Colin Burrow. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993. x + 325 pp- $53.00. Burrow’s subtitle has an old-fashioned sound, though...

... and theory. She is currently working on the construction of romanticism in contemporary culture. Romantic Constructions and Epic Subversions in Geoffrey Hill’s MdanHymns Karen A. Weisman If deconstruction, for the most part, ironized the romantic text...

...David Mikics John Watkins. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 208 pp. $20.00. Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Reviews The Specter OfDido: Spenser and Virgiliun Epic. By John Watkins. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995. xi + 208 pp...

... and Fire: The Elemental Sublime in Swinburne’s Arthurian Tale and Bal’mont’s Medieval Georgian Epic Martin Bidney s Edward W. Said’s Orientalism and his more recent Culture and A Imperialism make clear, the postcolonial literary historian enjoys opportunities...

... in footnotes. DOROTHYBROWN ASPINWALL The College of Idaho The Epic in Nineteenth-Century France. A Study in Heroic and Humanitarian Poetry from “Les Martyrs” to “Les Sikcles Morts.” By HERBERTJ. HUNT. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1941. Pp. xii + 446. $6.25...

... for conflict between Catho- lics and Huguenots in Europe, especially in France, where Homeric epic was read both systematically and politically from early humanist allegori- cal exegesis through to the later sixteenth century, when Homer became the grounds for either legitimating or critiquing...

...David Loewenstein Inside “Paradise Lost”: Reading the Designs of Milton’s Epic . By Quint David . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2014 . x + 329 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 David Quint’s elegant, learned, and nuanced study of Paradise...

...Alan F. Nagel David Thompson. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974. xi + 83 pp. $4.95. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 REVIEWS Dcink’s Epic Journeys. By DAVIDTHOMPSON. Haltimore ancl London: .Johns Hopkins...

...Antony H. Harrison Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 SWINBURNE’S TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE VISIONARY AND COURTLY EPIC By ANTONYH. HARRISON Although...

...John G. Demaray Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 LOVE’S EPIC REVEL IN PARADISE LOST A THEATRICAL VISION OF MARRIAGE By JOHN G. DEMARAY When evening comes to the Paradisial Garden, and Adam and Eve...

...James T. Hillhouse F. Fiske Christabel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. Pp. ix + 141. $2.50. Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 142 Reviews Epic Suggestion in the Imagery of the Waverley Novels. By CHRISTABELF. FISKE. New Haven: Yale...

...Brian Vickers MURRIN MICHAEL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980. xii + 275 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 REVIEWS The Allegorical Epic: Essays in Its Rise and Decline. By MICHAELMURRIN. Chi- cago and London...