by jac3 | May 4, 2025 | Publications
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...
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 | 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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