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  title info:
    title: Heroes, gods and the role of epiphany in English epic poetry
  name:
    name part: Risden, Edward L.
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: v, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. The work begins with three chapters on ancient poetry"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Epiphany and the Western epic tradition -- The "duty" theme in the epic tradition -- Epic individualism -- Beowulf and sub-liminal epic epiphany -- Epiphany and the rhetoric of (dis)enchantment in Spenser's Faerie queene -- Paradise lost and the resimplification of epic epiphany -- William Blake and the personal epic fantastic -- Wordsworth's spots of time: romantic epiphany and nature spectacular -- Aurora Leigh: Victorian epic and woman's social epiphany -- Walcott's Omeros: postmodern/postcolonial epic epiphanies.
  note: E.L. Risden.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Heroes in literature
  subject:
    topic: Gods in literature
  subject:
    topic: Epiphany in literature
  classification: PR509.E7 R57 2008
  classification: 821/.03209
  identifier: 9780786435418 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786435410 (softcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008020055
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 080505
    record change date: 20151109102718.0
    record identifier: in00002408435