Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954-, Tylus, Jane, 1956-, Wofford, Susanne Lindgren, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Temas:
Epic literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Littérature épique > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Epic literature.
Literature - General.
Languages & Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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