by jac3 | Mar 31, 2024 | Publications
This issue of the journal AOQU stems from the project entitled World Epics in Puppet Theater: India, Iran, Japan, Italy, co-sponsored by the Humanities War and Peace Initiative, through the Division of Humanities in the Arts & Sciences, Columbia University,...
by jac3 | Jan 30, 2024 | Publications
Edited by Pamela Lothspeich. Routledge, 2024. “Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass...
by jac3 | Oct 29, 2023 | Publications
Teaching World Epics offers strategies for teaching epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translation, including Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Beowulf, Giulia Bigolina’s Urania,...
by jac3 | Sep 15, 2023 | Adaptations
by ROBERT WEINBERG September 11, 2023 Excerpt: But there are always more stories to tell from Shahnameh and more ways to tell them. The initial challenge made by Melissa has now reached hundreds of thousands of appreciative people through other media and platforms....
by jac3 | Jul 11, 2023 | News & Events
French Branch conference at Lyon, France, call for papers: Guerres d’émotion : la chanson de geste et les affects Colloque international organisé par le CIHAM (UMR 5648) sous l’égide de la Société Rencesvals pour l’étude des épopées romanes, Section française 14-15...
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