The Epic World
The Epic World
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367252368 | 661 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367252368 | 661 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes.