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Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger...

Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics...

Epic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community / edited by Margaret Beissinger...

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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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Full title

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

Publisher

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

Call Numbers

N809.132/6

Record Identifier

74VvW6kxVxoy

MMS ID

991011891709702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

ix, 314 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

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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Publisher

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.

Place of Publication

California

Date Published

c1999.

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Full title

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

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c1999.

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Call Numbers

N809.132/6

Record Identifier

74VvW6kxVxoy

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvW6kxVxoy

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ISBN

0520210387 (acid-free paper)

9780520210370 (acid-free paper)

0520210379 (acid-free paper)

9780520210387 (acid-free paper)

DDC

809.132

MMS ID

991011891709702626

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