Ancient Epic Poetry
Author : Charles Rowan Beye
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Charles Rowan Beye
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Christiane Reitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2760 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110492598
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes within individual epics are scrutinized in order to provide a comprehensive structural approach and a key to intra- and intertextual characteristics of ancient epic poetry.
Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1135035342
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was intended not just to instruct but also to entertain. Praise for its predecessor, Reading Epic 'Toohey's erudition makes the complexities and the strangeness of these ancient poems appear as clear as daylight and his enthusiasm renders them as attractive as the latest blockbuster.' - JACT Review
Author : Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527523799
The Homeric epics and the Book of Songs are not just the fountainheads of the Western and Chinese literary traditions; for centuries they played a central role in education and communal life, and thus exercised a lasting influence on both civilizations. This volume presents the first systematic comparison of the two corpora. Part One analyzes their genesis and their reception, while Part Two discusses their characteristics as poetic creations. The book brings together Chinese and Western sinologists and classicists, and so promotes significant interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. Though the contributors rank among the leading experts in their fields, the essays here are accessible not only to their peers, but also to the interested ‘general reader’, and so to all those who seek a deeper understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations, their common human basis and their characteristic differences.
Author : Jeremy M. Downes
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
charts - for the first time - the otherwise invisible tradition of women's epic." "The Female Homer provides a powerful research tool through its checklist of women's epic poems, and a vital starting point for investigations and new conversations in the field. For scholars in Comparative Literature and English Studies who are already at work on questions of women's epic, the recovery of women's texts, and the place of women's writings within traditionally masculine canons of literature, The Female Homer sketches and consolidates the field. Beyond these specialists, scholars in all fields of literary study, once they clear their initial shock at the existence of women's epic, will be engaged by the kinds of texts these women poets have produced. Beyond an academic audience, the wider reading public will find in this accessibly written volume a welcome introduction to an unknown range of texts and authors. This approach also makes it a suitable textbook for courses in epic, in --
Author : Concepción Cabrillana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,82 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443883972
This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection of epic style, and the manipulation of epic myth to fulfil new functions, such as retelling contemporary history and conveying mystic symbology. Topics rooted in archaic poetry, such as the reutilisation of the ogre character embodied in the Cyclops and the journey into the Underworld, are also explored in great detail. In all these studies, the intertextual nature of ancient writing is consistently addressed through discussions of the revisiting of Homeric poetry by authors such as the Greek tragedians, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Valerius Flaccus. The analysis of the heroic narrative offered in this volume includes both literary phenomena and the language of the epic itself; the reader is thus afforded the widest possible view of current critical perspectives in classical literature and linguistics. Such a comprehensive treatment of the most important genre in the ancient world grants the reader powerful insights into the way in which ancient literature was composed. This collection of studies, while making a substantial contribution to scholarship in this field, will also appeal to a varied academic readership, including researchers in classical literature and linguistics, as well as students of literary theory.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 1762
Category :
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Author : Robert Auty
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780900547720
Author : William Allan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0199665451
William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a wealth of material, he reveals just what makes the 'classics' such masterpieces and why they continue to influence and fascinate today.
Author : John D. Smith
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A new selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody conflict, magic and beauty.