Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1999]
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
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- 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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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
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- OCLC:
- 44962370
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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