Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1504 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Epic, as the Anchor Defines It
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The idea
The glossary gives epic as a genre of classical poetry: a long narrative on a serious subject in elevated style, focused on a hero or demi-god who represents the cultural values of a people, whose success or failure determines that people's fate.
In practice
Long, serious, elevated, national.
Where people slip
The hero carries a people's fate.
Your place on the trail
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