Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Beissinger, Margaret H., 1954-
• Tylus, Jane, 1956-
• Wofford, Susanne Lindgren, 1952-
• NetLibrary, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Epic literature--History and criticism.
• Epic literature.
• Literature and society.

Physical Description:

ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1999]

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• 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.

ISBN:

• 0585139644
• 9780585139647

OCLC:

44962370

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.