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... epic , and the world of unfulfilled postulates which structures the modern novel . 23 Dante's epic is , then , ' a historico - philosophical transition from the pure epic to the novel ' . 24 Now much of Lukács's account of Dante's verse ...
... epic , and the world of unfulfilled postulates which structures the modern novel . 23 Dante's epic is , then , ' a historico - philosophical transition from the pure epic to the novel ' . 24 Now much of Lukács's account of Dante's verse ...
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... epic synthesis collapses into a one - sided emphasis on individual salvation , on the internal development of the human soul , which is devoid of all epic significance . Despite its nominally epic status , Paradise Regained is , in fact ...
... epic synthesis collapses into a one - sided emphasis on individual salvation , on the internal development of the human soul , which is devoid of all epic significance . Despite its nominally epic status , Paradise Regained is , in fact ...
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... epic theme - so the epic form itself is rendered similarly inaccessible . Thus we find in Paradise Regained a poetic theme which is simply that of personal redemption , and a poetic form which is anti- epic rather than epic . Paradise ...
... epic theme - so the epic form itself is rendered similarly inaccessible . Thus we find in Paradise Regained a poetic theme which is simply that of personal redemption , and a poetic form which is anti- epic rather than epic . Paradise ...
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Goldmanns Genetic Structuralism | 8 |
A Note on the Problem of Aesthetics | 18 |
Lukács and Socialist Realism | 24 |
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