Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954-
, [HerausgeberIn]
Tylus, Jane, 1956- , [HerausgeberIn] Wofford, Susanne Lindgren, 1952- , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1999.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (ix, 314 pages). Also issued in print. |
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| Online Zugang: |
open access |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Epic as genre / Gregory Nagy
- Performing interpretation : early allegorical exegesis of Homer / Andrew Ford
- The Arab epic poet as outcast, trickster, and con man / Susan Slyomovics
- Epic, gender, and nationalism : the development of nineteenth-century Balkan literature / Margaret Beissinger
- Metamorphosis, metaphor, and allegory in Latin epic / Philip Hardie
- Tasso's trees : epic and local culture / Jane Tylus
- Appropriating the epic : gender, caste, and regional identity in Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
- Problematic performances : overlapping genres and levels of participation in Arabic oral epic singing / Dwight F. Reynolds
- Worshipping epic villains : a Kaurava cult in the Central Himalayas / William S. Sax
- The natural tears of epic / Thomas M. Greene
- The poetics of loss in Greek epic / Sheila Murnaghan
- The role of lament in the growth and death of Roman epic / Elaine Fantham
- Epic and the politics of the origin tale : Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American aetiology / Susanne L. Wofford
- Walcott's Omeros : the classical epic in a post-modern world / Joseph Farrell.
