Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: The Epic in Literature

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Title Monsters, Gods, and Heroes: The Epic in Literature
Publication Type Book
Pub Year 2005
Authors Shutt, T. B.
Publisher Barnes & Noble
Keywords conflict, excellence, position, rage
Notes conflict, position"So it's a strife here, in a way, between position--between the CEO and the top salesman; between the principal and the best teacher; between Miller Huggins, the manager, and Babe Ruth, the best baseball player who ever lived; between the person who can really do it, and the person who is in charge. Those are incommensurable excellences, and then and now they often come into conflict. So here--that is the rage within the rage, the conflict within the conflict, that Homer is interested in chronicling."1