... that world epoch when life and destiny, adventures and ñåøåíe, life and essence turn to equal concepts. The ideal image of the epic hero continues to live in valuable memory of a novelistic genre. Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly ... the outcome of the author nor of the hero. The new dialogical form of the novel of the XX century assumes belittling of the "all-knowing" epic author up to a role of the story-teller alongside with an eminence of the hero up to a role of the objective author. "The French ... and which has no rel...

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... and heroic poem. I believe this epic can be considered as a "heroic-elegiac poem-. An epic is defined as a "long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society."" Although this is found in Beowulf, the elements of an epic hero poem and an elegiac poem combined ... , more completely describe this piece of Anglo-Saxon literature. As an epic hero, Beowulf has "superior physical strength- and "reflects the values and heroic ideals of a particular society,"" that ... also other believed in his strengths as well. One can al...

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... structure should be similar, or even that the subject and content should be replicated, but that Milton's mindset must be considered the primary driving force and truest inspirer for this epic poem that is irreplicable, but not unintelligible. Unlike many other authors and poets, Milton gives us many reasons to believe that his life is reflected in his writing. His whole ... of Achilles at Troy, let us say, or the return of Ulysses, or the arrival of Aeneas in Italy) and passes over the rest (685) This view of the classical epic may be justified, but its authority hardly applies to the ...

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