Novel Epics
Gogol, Dostoevsky, and National Narrative
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Northwestern University Press
USA
190
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201510
978-0-8101-0901-8
0-8101-0901-8
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Challenges Bakhtin's classification of epic as a monophonic and dead genre. An epic is not only about heroes, argue the authors, but about the epic form itself, its durability and its unique contingence on earlier epics. Precisely because of its grand themes and its claims of cultural centrality, epic is the form most suited to newcomers or cultural outsiders who seek legitimacy by appropriating the past.
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