The Spirit of Truth: Epic Modes in Medieval Literature
Stephen G. Nichols
T-HIS OBSERVATION by the noted art historian, Erwin Panofsky, was not written specifically to describe present state of critical, theoretical and historical research into genre western literature which we call epic, but it could hardly find a more appropriate application. One best recent books seeking promulgate theory epic states in its first chapter, devoted adumbrating The Norms Epic, that
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