![]() The second claim, that the epic lost its gods and demons, caused a trifurcation of the epic poem into separate subgenres: the social epic, the sacred epic, and the supernatural epic. Despite his honorable task, Tucker is forced to acknowledge that most critics "depict prose fiction as the genre in which modernity stands forth over epic's dead body" ( 4). Tucker fights an uphill battle to demonstrate that the epic did not die out but flourished from the Romantic to the Edwardian ages. The first claim is typically accepted by critics, although with some exceptions. Second, the "gods, angels, and demons" who engage directly in the action of the story disappeared. First, it was typically no longer written in verse, as the novel became the preferred form with which to tell a long tale. After the Renaissance, the epic lost two of its most fundamental qualities. They also commonly contain "supernatural forces-gods, angels, and demons- interest themselves in the action" (Harmon and Holman 185). Epics have many universal characteristics, such as elevated language in poetic form, vast settings, and strong protagonists who demonstrate feats of great strength and genius. One of the greatest ancient literary genres, the epic, is no exception. As a result, belief, religion, and theology have been central to the main action of stories since the earliest forms of literature. To do the same, this paper analyses the five books of the Percy Jackson series Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Lightening Thief, Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Sea of Monsters, Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Titan’s Curse, Percy Jackson and the Olympians- The Battle of Labyrinth and Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief- The Last Olympian.īecause of humanity's fixation on death, religion and the afterlife have played a part in human culture throughout history. This paper looks at the ways in which Riordan has done this and how, in fact, it is not an appropriate way to revive mythology of not just Greek but any culture. He has super-impose American ideologies, culture and traditions over Greek ones. In the process of reworking Greek mythology and bringing it into the contemporary American world, Riordan has in fact changed the whole focus of the Greek mythology. But does this revival and reworking truly hold the essence of the original mythology? But the question is, are these books a good medium to introduce the readers to the Greek mythology? This paper tries to answer these questions. ![]() Rick Riordan’s this famous series is regarded as a major contributions in reviving and reworking the Greek mythology. Percy Jackson series is one of the most renowned bestsellers in the world of Young Adult Fiction. Ultimately, this examination of a recent example of American children’s literature provides an insight into the stories American society is telling its children about itself stories that children will use to help navigate, interpret and define their world. This thesis focuses on five such characteristics: the association of ancient Greek characters with American cultural icons the juxtaposition of ancient Greek and contemporary American treatments of sex and alcohol, particularly in relation to children the engagement with emerging social norms around father-less households, including a re-gendering of the evil stepparent stereotype the use of female stereotypes to support the male hero and, finally, a depiction of financial transactions that engage with wider economic values occurring in America at the time of writing. This thesis contends that (and demonstrates how) Rick Riordan’s children’s novel The Lightning Thief (2005) provides an illustration of some of the characteristics of present-day American society and identity, aspects of which are so recent that they are yet to be widely portrayed in children’s literature.
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