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    Ulysses in Fitzroy and The Odour of Sanctity: arguing for the contemporary epic poem
    BROWN, AMY ( 2012)
    The dissertation challenges Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin’s argument that the epic is “semi-moribund”. The argument, that absolute epic distance may be “novelized”, is an original contribution to contemporary epic poetic theory. The creative half of the thesis is a contemporary epic poem, titled The Odour of Sanctity. It demonstrates the dissertation’s argument that a poem may be epic without maintaining “absolute epic distance”, and that the cultural truth of the contemporary epic is conveyed via a vast series of fragments.