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Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community
- Title
- Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 314 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 99-6407
- ISBN
- 0520210379 (acid-free paper)
- 0520210387 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 98049047
- OCLC
- 40193758
- Title
- Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Beissinger, Margaret H.Tylus, Jane, 1956-Wofford, Susanne Lindgren, 1952-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 99-6407