Reconsidering Moretti's "rhetoric of innocence": Ambivalence Toward and Rationalizations of Heroic Violence in Contemporary Epic.
A characteristic trope of the twentieth-century "modern" epic was a reimagination of the genre to suppress conventional heroes and battles. Such reluctance to celebrate wars among the literary intelligentsia was particularly typical of the West in the wake of two World Wars. Perhaps the text most ex...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 107 - 125 |
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Fall2025
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