How do you define Travel Writing and Memoirs? How do you define Epic writing?
2006-11-19 05:39:49 · 2 answers · asked by arcenia256 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Travel writing is a genre particularly popular in England and Europe throughout the 18th and 19th c. focusing on the exoticism of places like India or the Carribean. Swift's Gulliver's Travels parodies the genre. A memoir focuses specifically on the events of one's own life and is usually shorter and more melodramatic in nature than a typical biography. An epic is a long narrative lyrical poem through which a hero identifies and typifies the values or beliefs of a nation state. Examples include Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as well as Virgil's Anaeid and Alexander Pope's parody of the genre titled The Rape of the Lock.
2006-11-19 05:55:24 · answer #1 · answered by Stacye S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as the guy before me said. There is also a known epic story of "Beowulf". There is a movie about it.
2006-11-19 16:25:55 · answer #2 · answered by Alexei 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋