Talk:Epic (genre)

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Next chance I get, or if someone else wants to do it, a disambig needs to be added at the top of this article's page to the dismbig. page, and this article's title needs to be added to the disambig. page, but I wanted to wait a little until the titling was better established. Cheerios. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:38, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm. You know I hate disagreeing with you (well...), but I think there's not much here--the article boils down to the definition of "epic" as an adjective. Sorry pal. Drmies (talk) 05:41, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It's possible, and I've considered that, but I think it will be enough. The problem and the need is, I think, demonstrated by the use of the word "epic" in numerous articles, yet the only article on the subject itself of this sort of epic is the one about epic poetry which doesn't exactly apply and so isn't terribly helpful. I think (know) that this will be a perfectly helpful and happy stub that will address the subject of epics whose only crime is a lack of rhyme. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:49, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Poor Quality
This article is terrible, and needs to either be seriously revised, or deleted. —76.93.41.50 (talk) 07:53, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I tried. Srnec (talk) 03:57, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

"Epic Conventions"
These are characteristic of epic poetry, and not really epic novels, film and theater, the subject of this article. Novels/theater/film are called epic for the scope of the action and heroism of the characters. —Green Cardamom (talk) 07:22, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

WorldCat Genres
Maximilianklein (talk) 23:09, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Max. --and that's a cute user/template!
 * Epic fantasy here at English wikipedia redirects to high fantasy.
 * Clute & Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1999), consider the term unusable for anything distinct from sword-and-sorcery aka heroic fantasy because the industry has made epic (like heroic) essentially a euphemism for S&S.
 * Whether to merge "heroic" with "sword-and-sorcery" has been nominally under discussion from 2006. See Talk: Heroic fantasy and #Fantasy genres, for one or two.
 * Clute & Grant define "high fantasy" more strictly than we do, which makes their term more useful than ours, I believe. We should attend to WorldCat's "epic fiction" and might well consider distinguishing "epic" distinct from "high" fantasy subgenre, or rearranging some material in the group of related articles. --P64 (talk) 00:43, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Possible sources for expanding this article

 * The Epic in Film: From Myth to Blockbuster. The preface has discussion about epics in general.
 * Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History. Possible source on epics in general.
 * Epic Voices: Inner and Global Impulse in the Contemporary American and British Novel, potential source.

(TBD) -- Green Cardamom (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

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Article fails to explain what the epic genre is
I came here for a functional definition and what I got was a description with some ideology chucked in at the end. Surely the epic needs to be represented in terms of both form ( larger intersecting multi-character narratives) and content (activities of civilisational importance). Surely the idea of an epic genre would become clearer we’re contrasted with other genre? 124.169.147.186 (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * You can add that, so long as there is a good quality source. The last time I looked at this page, a long long time ago (..in a galaxy far away..), I recall having a hard time finding sources for a definition. -- Green  C  02:57, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

English
Novel on epic 27.123.137.230 (talk) 07:21, 14 July 2024 (UTC)