Epic poetry
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This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly... more
Les Slaves de l'Est (Biélorusses, Russes et Ukrainiens) possèdent une très riche tradition de chants épiques et religieux qui bien souvent renvoient à un fond très archaïque, un fond mythologique qui n'a de chrétien que l'apparence. Ces... more
Genre: Epic, Poetry (any). Country: Spain, Spain.
The vision of Derek Walcott piñatas his writing. He sees colonial politics for what it is. He is not over Art by western might. As a writer and as a cultural agent Derek Walcott stands on his own feet. He trans fuses the spirit of... more
Though Odysseus’ tales to Eumaios and Aninoos in Odyssey 14.199–359 and 17.417–44, respectively, are presented as fictional tales within Homer’s larger myth, some elements have striking analogs in Late Bronze–Early Iron Age reality.... more
Convegno internazionale di studi in onore di Antonio Martina per i suoi 75 anni Roma, 22-23 ottobre 2009 a cura di G. Cerri, A.-T. Cozzoli e M. Giuseppetti Roma 2012 SCIENZE E LETTERE Il volume è pubblicato con il contributo del... more
The palimpsest manuscript Sin. ar. NF 66 is one of the treasures of the Monastery of Saint Catherine located in the Sinai Peninsula. Nowadays it consists of a few fragmentary parchment sheets, but originally it was a larger codex of ca.... more
CU Boulder - FREN1200 Offered FA2014, FA2015, FA2016 Course Description: The popularity of George RR Martin's fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire and its Emmy-winning HBO adaptation Game of Thrones shows us that major themes from medieval... more
While there can be a blessing in reading any part of God’s Word, the promise in Revelation 1:3 motivated me all the more toward this study project, “Blessed is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear... more
This article underscores the importance of Canto 7 in the design of Part One as well as its significance in the overall architecture of Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569, 1578, 1589). During his depiction of Concepción's destruction,... more
A chapbook that highlights the menace in Nigeria and how to tackle it through Poetry
These poems, composed in Somali and in English, provide a poetic reflection of the recently emerged debate on the theme of Caddaan Studies which means "White Studies". The criticism and counter-criticism contained in the debate dug so... more
The opening paragraphs of the Symposium, whatever their relationship with historical truth, are the best evocation by any early writer of how texts are transmitted orally. Plato depicts a multiple oral tradition, branching and... more
The Italian edition of the work by Eleazar M. Meletinsky on the historical poetics of the novella – recently edited and translated by M. Bonafin and L. Sestri ‒ gives us the opportunity to revise the theoretical model by which the Russian... more
Cet article propose de voir à quoi correspond, dans l’Antiquité, la catégorie d’ « épopée didactique » (ou « poésie didactique »), couramment utilisée par les savants modernes pour rendre compte d’œuvres comme les Travaux et les jours, le... more
Fruto de um esforço coletivo que envolveu uma série de pesquisadores de diferentes países, como Brasil, Portugal e Estados Unidos, este livro apresenta algumas reflexões sobre o interessante e fecundo campo de estudos das tradições... more
Melville’s centennial poem Clarel is the American epic about geography, the land, and SPACE. The poem is 18,000 lines, composed almost entirely in iambic tetrameter, most of it in rhyme. It is about a young theological student named... more
This paper offers an introduction to 'multiforms' as associated systems of verbal elements that develop in the memory of an individual and are used in text production. It examines these in the highly conservative kalevalaic mythological... more
Прежде чем начать разговор о комбинации жанровых структур в поэме М. Ю. Лермонтова «Демон», следует определить, как мы представляем себе это явление вообще. Впервые в применении к творчеству А. С. Пушкина описал его Ю. Н. Тынянов,... more
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Julius Caesar, one of the protagonists of Lucan’s Pharsalia, disappears from the scene for a long time after the Battle of Pharsalus. He reappears at the end of Book 9, when he pays a visit to the ruined city of Troy. The function and the... more
An oral epic is fundamentally a tale about the fantastic deeds of a person or persons endowed with something more than human might and operating in something larger than the normal human context and it is of significance in portraying... more
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RESUMEN La obediencia del héroe en el Cantar de mio Cid es una decisión táctica, no estratégica, a partir de la cual se desarrolla un proceso de persuasión de la voluntad regia que contrarrestará el efectuado por los malos mestureros... more
Rather than being a somewhat inept literary work, as it is sometimes thought to be, 'La Chanson de Willame' is rather a cohesive expression of the same strong orally-based epic tradition that produced 'La Chanson de Roland' and other... more
This paper discusses the depiction of ambushes in chronicles of the High Middle Ages. Identifying ambushes in this period is particularly difficult, as the Latin term 'insidia' could also be used more generically to refer to stratagems,... more
An edition of MacPherson's Ossian poems—without the controversy. Edited by Sasha Newborn.
SAŽETAK: Proučavanje narodne igre sveobuhvatan je istraživački zahvat koji, da bi dao najbolje rezultate, mora uključivati kako istraživanje aktuelnog stanja date tradicije na terenu, tako i interpretaciju prethodno naslojenih tragova... more
This is an overview of the Iranian oral epic tradition from pre-Islamic times to the present. It questions the application of the oral-formulaic theory and the tradition of extemporaneous versification to Persian epic narratives.