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Epic Ambitions in Modern Times explores how artists in varied genres and media have aimed for, in Milton's phrase, "things unattempted yet" in epic creation. Starting with the last books of Paradise Lostas a farewell to the ancient tradition of epic and extending to an assessment of four twenty-first-century women writers retelling canonical epics in the voices of marginalized characters, the book's intervening chapters consider epic in the forms of an epistolary novel, a work of history, a poetic autobiography, an opera, a silent film, a series of paintings, two literary fantasies, three poems set in the future and a play.
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- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Whatever Happened to the Epic?
- Chapter Two Leaving Paradise
- Chapter Three An Epic Told in Letters
- Chapter Four Prospects and Living Pictures
- Chapter Five Analyzing a Soul
- Chapter Six Epic Heroinism
- Chapter Seven Cinematic Spectacle and the Hero
- Chapter Eight Paradise Sought: The African American Odyssey
- Chapter Nine Imaginary History and Epic Fantasy
- Chapter Ten The Epic in Future Tense
- Chapter Eleven Heaven and Hell Reimagined
- Chapter Twelve Translating and Recentering Old Epics
- Index