Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger...
Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger...
Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
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N809.132/6
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English
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ix, 314 p. ; 24 cm.
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Sect. 1. On the Margins of the Scribal: From Oral Epic to Text. 1. Epic as Genre / Gregory Nagy. 2. Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer / Andrew Ford. 3. The Arab Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man / Susan Slyomovics. 4. Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Develop...
11. The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic / Sheila Murnaghan. 12. The Role of Lament in the Growth and Death of Roman Epic / Elaine Fantham -- Sect. 5. Epic and Pedagogy. 13. Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology / Susanne L. Wofford. 14. Walcott...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
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California
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c1999.
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Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c1999.
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N809.132/6
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0520210387 (acid-free paper)
9780520210370 (acid-free paper)
0520210379 (acid-free paper)
9780520210387 (acid-free paper)
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809.132
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