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epic: a standalone construct

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Genre studies

a genre set in a completed national heroic past held at an absolute distance from the present of teller and listener, unlike the open novel.

In genre studies, epic refers to a genre set in a completed national heroic past held at an absolute distance from the present of teller and listener, unlike the open novel. This meaning comes from Bakhtin (1981) in The dialogic imagination.[1]

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genre3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs absolute2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs EPIC architecture1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Bakhtin, M. M. (1981). The dialogic imagination. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292715349

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