Camões: No poet is an island

Camões: No poet is an island

The Legacy of Luís de Camões: Portugal’s Greatest Poet. The Hispanic Museum & Library A symposium taking place on October 1st that aims to show that this famous poet — a symbol of a changing world – spoke to all eras and that his words deserve global recognition....
World Epics and Puppet Theater (AOQU 4.2)

World Epics and Puppet Theater (AOQU 4.2)

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,...
The Epic World

The Epic World

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...
Teaching World Epics

Teaching World Epics

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,...