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A 10 page paper which examines how epic and romance are featured in what are ‘essentially celebrations of bygone worlds.’ Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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their kingdoms while saving damsels in distress are immediately conjured. These were different times, when morality and not socioeconomic status defined a mans character. Although different literary genres,
both epic and romance are similar in that they are essentially nostalgic, unabashed celebrations of bygone worlds. The late literary scholar, Professor Earl Miner, noted that epics and romances
are examples of a higher narrative, which means that, "Everything is put on a higher plane than ordinary" (Ono). In epics and romances, the heroes are always more handsome,
more virile, and more courageous than the average man, and heroines are idealized versions of beauty and virtue (Ono). They are passionate portrayals of a way of life that
is strongly influenced by "nostalgic feelings," or ideologies that seek to link local regional literature with high culture that immortalizes the value systems that were in place during a particular
time period (Ono). Specifically, an epic is a literary term used to describe heroic poems composed during the medieval era and
Middle Ages (Ker 1). It usually pertains to Germanic heathen narratives that describe a more austere, barbaric way of life (Ker 1). With the passage of time, epics
evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin, romances reveal a dramatic shift in the cultural sphere of influence and feature
a world order "unmodified by the great changes of the twelfth century" (Ker 4). Romances are nostalgic representations of an age of chivalry or courtesy, where the rules of
courtly etiquette determined behavior, actions, and love. The anonymously written epic poem, "Beowulf" embodies the spirit of the feudal era while Sir Thomas Malorys romantic prose, Le Morte DArthur,
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