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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.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  809.132 Ep42    ---  Available
Description ix, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Epic as genre / Gregory Nagy -- Performing interpretation : early allegorical exegesis of Homer / Andrew Ford -- 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 -- Natural tears of epic / Thomas M. Greene -- Poetics of loss in Greek epic / Sheila Murnaghan -- 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.
Literature and society.
Added Author Beissinger, Margaret H.
Tylus, Jane, 1956-
Wofford, Susanne Lindgren, 1952-
ISBN 0520210387 (pbk.)
0520210379 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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