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...
by jac3 | Jun 13, 2023 | Publications
By Jo Ann Cavallo. Anthem World Epic and Romance Series. Anthem Press, 2023. This study reconstructs the history of the Manteo family marionette theater in New York City, provides translations of eight selected plays and 270 extant summaries, and offers comparative...
by jac3 | May 5, 2023 | Publications
By Brenda E. F. Beck. University of Toronto Press 2023. In Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a respected...
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