Lothspeich, Pamela
(ed.)
Editorial: Routledge
Colección: Routledge Worlds
Número de páginas: 660 págs.
Fecha de edición: 31-01-2024
EAN: 9780367252366
ISBN: 978-0-367-25236-6
Precio (sin IVA): 274,13 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 285,10 €
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, this book 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.