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   An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded to include modern mediums including film, theater, television shows, novels, and video games. [1] The use of epic as a genre, specifically for epic poetry, dates back millennia, all the way to the Epic of Gilgamesh , widely agreed to be the first epic.

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   epic, long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds, although the term has also been loosely used to describe novels, such as Leo Tolstoy ’s War and Peace, and motion pictures, such as Sergey Eisenstein ’s Ivan the Terrible. In literary usage, the term encompasses both oral and written compositions.

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3. daveastoronliterature.com › 2016/10/30 › exploringExploring and Explaining Epic Fiction | Dave Astor on Literature

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   Oct 30, 2016 · What makes a novel an epic novel? That kind of book often is long, contains many characters, is set in various places, has a story line spanning multiple years and even generations, and is filled with consequential events — such as war, adventure, quests, travel, societal changes, family feuds, and/or confrontations with evil.

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   Jul 13, 2020 · From this standpoint, all novels are epic. The usual claim that a novel like Gone with the Wind is an epic harks back to a Renaissance argument that epics could be written in prose. But even if we look at the epic more strictly as being a long heroic poem, there are many epics in English literary history.

5. www.goodreads.com › series › 56336Epic Series by Conor Kostick - Goodreads

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   Book 1. Epic. by Conor Kostick. 3.96 · 6,664 Ratings · 583 Reviews · published 2004 · 36 editions. Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth.…. Want to Read. Rate it:

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   Why are some books called 'epic novels'?

   • Most significantly, the advent of the novel, such as classics like Tolstoy 's War and Peace which began to be referred to as “epic novels”, caused critics to reconsider what can be called an “epic”.

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   Are epics still a genre?

   • However, the nebulous definitions assigned to even the long-standing ancient epics due to their ubiquitous presence across vastly differing cultures and traditions, are still a topic of discourse for today's literary academics, and have caused lingering difficulties in creating a definitive definition for the umbrella term of “epic” as a genre.

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   What makes a story a 'epic'?

   • Originating once again from the style of the ancient epic, a certain level of seriousness is expected in the prose of something considered an “epic”. Put another way, to achieve the grandiosity typical of an “epic”, distance must be created from the story for the reader via the style of the prose.

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   Where did epic poetry come from?

   • The earliest known epic poetry is that of the Sumerians. Its origin has been traced to a preliterate heroic age, not later than 3000 bce, when the Sumerians had to fight, under the direction of a warlike aristocracy, for possession of this fertile Mesopotamian land.

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