Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

Translated by Saglar Bougdaeva (University of California Press, 2023). “This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis Khan’s medieval empire in Europe. Today, Kalmykia is situated in...
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,...