What is a national epic ?
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i33p105-123Keywords:
literary criticism, literary genre, epic poem, nationAbstract
This study focuses on literary criticism and aims at questioning the forms of nationalization in the commentary, that is to say all different manners of commenting on a text in the light of a national space. This study therefore gathers a set of critical studies on epic poetry that all use the notion of “national epic” in their vocabulary: to what extent can literary criticism presume the existence of a generic category called "national epic", then refer to it and use it as an hermeneutic tool, without actually naming it? Contemporary discourses will be contrasted with a set of late nineteenth-century studies, all of which are determined by a nationalist way of thinking.
Keywords: literary criticism; literary genre; epic poem; nation.
Contemporary discourses will be contrasted with a set of late nineteenth-century studies, all of which are determined by a nationalist way of thinking.
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