Thread: What makes a story EPIC?
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Old 09-10-2015, 08:03 AM   #50
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
What about the picaresque? Don Quixote is epic by my lights and it's also very funny.
Tricky, that one.
Picaresque is a class unto itself and DON QUIJOTE was spoofing earlier romances that aspired to be epics.
Think: BLAZING SADDLES vs 60's Hollywood Westerns.

Cervantes was criticizing the literary (and though them, political) establishment of the day for their out-dated, disconnected tropes.
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