books about: mock-epic

books about: mock-epic

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Mock-epic

Zen Smoking: A Mock Epic With Stock Characters
A. K. Stanfield

AuthorHouse, 2002

When Will Wright and his alternative rock band Morning Glory and the Medicine Men get a gig on Halloween, all hell breaks loose. Not only is the gig during the full moon, but it is for Billsmore College's Homecoming game against rivals North State. He must discover the secret that haunts the college if the band is going to get to play, so they can ...

Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce
George De Forest Lord

University of Delaware Press, 1977

This study demonstrates that the comic mode in the epic, and in some outstanding plays and novels, is inseparable from their high seriousness. Dr. Lord takes into account the fact that in many of the greatest works in Western literature, the heroic mockery of serious themes transcends the distinction between the tragic and the comic and are in ...

Mock epic bad, but not epically so.(Movies - Reviews)(Movie review): An article from: Winnipeg Free Press
Gale Reference Team

Thomson Gale, 2008

This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on January 11, 2008. The length of the article is 596 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it ...

Achilles in California: a mock epic
Paul Luchessa

iUniverse, Inc., 2003

Achilles in California is a modern retelling of the Achilles legend, based closely on the Iliad of Homer. Set in a California high school in late 1963, the story centers on the football team, and the players and coaches have their analogues in Homer's epic. Mark Panokotonkis, 'Achilles', is the campus hero, and Larry Terhune, 'Patroklos', is ...

Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic
Gregory Colomb

Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988

Designs on Truth provides a reinterpretation of Augustan poetry, not as works to be defended before the court of Matthew Arnold and the Romantic tradition but as works that examine the rich relationships among text, culture, and world.In Designs on Truth, Gregory Colomb identifies the characteristics of the mock-epic and argues that the form had ...

Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic.: An article from: Philological Quarterly
D.N. DeLuna

University of Iowa, 1993

This digital document is an article from Philological Quarterly, published by University of Iowa on March 22, 1993. The length of the article is 1546 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can ...