/lit/ - Literature

Is the epic dead in contemporary times? I've seen works across all mediums that are either epic or literary but nothing that captures the scope and prowess of The Illiad or Paradise Lost. Nothing really even seems to reach the all-encompassing social criticism of works such as Nineteen Eighty-Four or the part landscape part historical tract that is War and Peace. Most of the things now seems to be focused on small scale examinations of human aspects in small family drama sequences etc...