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Epic adventures : heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents / edited by Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier.

Title
Epic adventures : heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents / edited by Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier.
Publication
Münster : Lit ; New Brunswick, U.S.A. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Pub., c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Jansen, Jan, 1962-
  • Maier, Hendrik M. J.
Description
197 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Literature ; v. 3
Uniform Title
Literatur (Lit (Firm)) Bd. 3.
Subject
  • Epic literature > History and criticism
  • Heroes
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier -- The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa-- the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen -- The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen -- A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman -- Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann -- The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon -- Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide -- The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen -- The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson -- The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst -- The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof -- An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier -- The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie -- Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney -- The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.
ISBN
  • 3825867587
  • 9783825867584
OCLC
  • 52784426
  • SCSB-12478924
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library