Martin Amis' The Information reads like that kind of epic or most of
Patrick White's novels, but what about cinema and TV don't they meet
the world's epic needs?
Steve KK
At 9:11 AM +1100 24/2/2001, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> >I don't think Coffey set out to write an epic, but Advent
>>seems the sort of long poetic labour that might be conceivaby have
>>replaced the epic form in our time?
>
>I had the general idea that the impulse towards the epic has in our time
>has been replaced by the novel, of which I guess Ulysses is the shining
>example. Quite willing, of course, to be wrong about this.
>
>Best
>
>Alison
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