TY - BOOK AU - Beissinger,Margaret H. AU - Tylus,Jane AU - Wofford,Susanne Lindgren TI - Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community SN - 9780520919730 AV - PN56.E65 E665 1999eb U1 - 809.1/32 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Berkeley, Calif. PB - University of California Press KW - Epic literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and society KW - Society in literature KW - Littérature épique KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature et société KW - TRAVEL KW - Special Interest KW - Literary KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - General KW - fast KW - Literature - General KW - hilcc KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13049 ER -