Discourses of Empire

The counter-epic is a literary style that developed in reaction to imperialist epic conventions as a means of scrutinizing the consequences of foreign conquest of dominated peoples. It also functioned as a transitional literary form, a bridge between epic narratives of military heroics and novelisti...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Simerka, Barbara
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Penn State University Press 2025
Subjects:	Literature: history and criticism Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary theory European history
Online Access:	ONIX_20250417_9780271031606_4
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