| 单词 | beast epic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbeast epic beast epic n. a lengthy tale, or cycle of tales, depicting animals exhibiting human traits or behaviours and typically satirical or didactic in style.The genre originated in the medieval period. [Compare German Tierepos (1759 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > other fictional narrative > [noun] > story involving animals beast epic1850 beast tale1951 1850 R. B. Paul tr. W. Pütz Handbk. Mod. Geogr. & Hist. 70 We find nothing in that class of poetry except a sort of ‘Beast-Epic’ [Ger. Thierepos]. 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 159 The so-called Beast-Epic of Reynard the Fox. 1924 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 39 764 Chaucer's readers were educated to expect satirical hits and some more than didactic pieces of allegory in their beast epic and beast fable. 2020 M. Mc Neill Hale Birth Mod. Polit. Satire ii. 27 A second animal genre, the beast epic,..emerged in the mid-twelfth century. < as lemmas |
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