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Author : Robert Auty
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Epic poetry
ISBN : 0900547723
Author : Samuel Wesley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547522331
"Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry and the Essay on Heroic Poetry" by Samuel Wesley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1977-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521213169
Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific. Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr Finnegan includes in her argument the results of topical research from all over the world, thus illuminating and suggesting fresh conclusions to many controversies: the nature of 'oral tradition'; possible connections between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies.
Author : Cm Bowra
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1376153025
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Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501723223
An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199571581
A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351123761
Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia. The book seeks to remedy the problem of non-specialists’ lack of access to information on the Turkic traditions, and in the process, it provides scholars in various disciplines with material for comparative investigation. The book focuses on "central traditions" of this region, specifically those of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpak’s, and Kirghiz and looks at the historical and linguistic background to a survey of the earliest documents, portraits of the singers and of performance considerations of genre, story-patterns, and formulaic diction, and discussions of "composition in performance", memory, rhetoric and diffusion.
Author : Riach Alan Riach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474471992
A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry
Author : Jan Knappert
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Epic poetry, African
ISBN : 9004068775
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017911708
Author : H. V. Routh
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : John Dryden
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368438715
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0877790426
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Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802867926
Warfare exerts a magnetic power, even a terrible attraction, in its emphasis on glory, honor, and duty. In order to face the terror of war, it is necessary to face how our biblical traditions have made it attractive -- even alluring. In this book Mark Smith undertakes an extensive exploration of "poetic heroes" across a number of ancient cultures in order to understand the attitudes of those cultures toward war and warriors. Smith examines the Iliad and the Gilgamesh; Ugaritic poems commemorating Baal, Aqhat, and the Rephaim; and early biblical poetry, including the battle hymn of Judges 5 and the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan in 2 Samuel 1. Smith's Poetic Heroes analyzes the importance of heroic poetry in early Israel and its disappearance after the time of David, building on several strands of scholarship in archaeological research, poetic analysis, and cultural reconstruction.
Author : Roderick Beaton,David Ricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351944175
Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and public figures in Greece. There are many reasons for this, not least among them the prestige accorded to ’national epics’ in the nineteenth century and for some time afterwards. Another reason must surely be the work’s uniqueness: there is nothing quite like Digenes Akrites in either Byzantine or Modern Greek literature. However, this uniqueness is not confined to its problematic place in the literary ’canon’ and literary history. As historical testimony, and in its complex relationship to later oral song and to older myth and story-telling, Digenes Akrites again has no close parallels of comparable length in Byzantine or Modern Greek culture. Whether as a literary text, a historical source, or a manifestation of an oral popular culture, Digenes Akrites remains, more than a century after its rediscovery, persistently enigmatic. This Byzantine ’epic’ or ’romance’ has now become the focus of new research across a range of disciplines since the publication in 1985 of a radically revised edition based on the Escorial text of the poem, by Stylianos Alexiou. The papers in this volume, derived from a conference held in May 1992 at King’s College London, seeks to present and discuss the results of this new research. Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry is the second in the series published by Variorum for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London.