LEADER 04248oam 2200565zu 450 001 9910495893503321 005 20240108042209.0 010 $a0-585-13964-4 010 $a0-520-91973-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520919730 035 $a(CKB)111057870450394 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000148662 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12010334 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000148662 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10225373 035 $a(PQKB)10004607 035 $a(DE-B1597)649375 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520919730 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111057870450394 100 $a20160829d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEpic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of California Press$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (323 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-21038-7 311 $a0-520-21037-9 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tSECTION ONE On the Margins of the Scribal From Oral Epic to Text --$t1 Epic as Genre --$t2 Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer --$t3 The Arabic Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man --$t4 Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth- Century Balkan Literature --$tSECTION TWO Epic and Authority --$t5 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic --$t6 Tasso's Trees Epic and Local Culture --$t7 Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India --$tSECTION THREE The Boundaries of Epic Performance --$t8 Problematic Performances: Overlapping Genres and Levels of Participation in Arabic Oral Epic-Singing --$t9 Worshiping Epic Villains: A Kaurava Cult in the Central Himalayas1 --$tSECTION FOUR Epic and Lament --$t10 The Natural Tears of Epic --$t11 The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic --$t12 The Role of Lament in the Growth and Eclipse of Roman Epic --$tSECTION FIVE Epic and Pedagogy --$t13 Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology --$t14 Walcott's Omeros The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World --$tCONTRIBUTORS --$tINDEX 330 $aThe epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions-ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slavic, Indian, Native American, Italian, English, and Caribbean-demonstrating the continuing vitality of the epic tradition.Juxtaposing work on the traditional canon of western epics with scholarship on contemporary epics from various parts of the world, these essays cross the divide between oral and literary forms that has long marked the approach to the genre. With its focus on the links among narrative, politics, and performance, the collection creates a new dialogue illustrating the sociopolitical significance of the epic tradition. Taken together, the essays raise compelling new issues for the study of epic, as they examine concerns such as national identity, gender, pedagogy, and the creation of the canon. 606 $aEpic literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aLiterature - General$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 0$aEpic literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 7$aLiterature - General 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a809.1/32 700 $aBeissinger$b Margaret H.$f1954-$01460702 702 $aTylus$b Jane$f1956- 702 $aWofford$b Susanne Lindgren$f1952- 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495893503321 996 $aEpic traditions in the contemporary world : the poetics of community$93660676 997 $aUNINA