[Visitor (58.214.*.*)]answers [Chinese ] | Time :2020-08-29 | "Epic" has undergone many changes during its thousands of years of development. Today, it has broken through the original precepts and has become a very wide-ranging concept. Paul Merchant in "Epic Theory" In the summary, the views of Mary Lucasian and Ezra Pound believe that: "beyond all aspects of realism" and "including history" represent the two extremes of our description of experience as "epic".F.L. Lucas made a useful summary of the basic style of epic in the "Epic" entry of the "Encyclopedia" edited by Chambers: "The action is unified, the plot is compact, the art from the middle, the supernatural force, The use of prophecy and hell, modified metaphors...In short, epic has a sublime characteristic, real, natural, and unparalleled. Only Nordic legends can occasionally compete with one.".. |
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