{"product_id":"epic-novel-the-progress-of-antiquity","title":"Epic Novel \u0026 The Progress Of Antiquity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.\u003c\/b\u003e Epic and novel have often been construed in terms of sharp contrasts: temporally, with the epic anchored in the canonical beginnings of classical literature, as opposed to the novel, which rises only late in the ancient era; hierarchically, with epic regularly occupying the canonical core while the novel often resided in the periphery; and in terms of specific highly contrasting attributes: ''sublime'' vs. ''subversive''; an aspiration to ''oral'' song vs. an intimate association with book culture; heroic vs. ''anti-heroic'' or ''mock-heroic''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ahuvia Kahane argues for the fallibility of each of several major differential attributes, to the point of generic disintegration. He then constructs a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework, governed by intertextuality and openness on the one hand, and by fragmented interpretive traditions on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305017254270,"sku":"NW9781350278257","price":19.03,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781350278257.jpg?v=1778561238","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/epic-novel-the-progress-of-antiquity","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}