| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Epic traditions in the contemporary world/ edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford. |
| Reminder of title: |
the poetics of community / |
| other author: |
Beissinger, Margaret H. |
| Published: |
Berkeley, Calif. :University of California Press, : c1999., |
| Description: |
ix, 314 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Epic literature - History and criticism. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13049An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585139644 (electronic bk.) |