by jac3 | Dec 31, 2023 | 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 | 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...
by jac3 | Nov 11, 2022 | Publications
“Whatever happened to the epic?” by Jo Ann Cavallo Anthem Press Blog • November 1, 2022 Miguel de Cervantes famously claimed to have composed Don Quixote de la Mancha to combat the imaginative hold that books of chivalry had over his contemporaries. Reading the novel...
by jac3 | Oct 4, 2022 | Publications
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times: From Paradise Lost to the New Millennium. By Robert Crossley. Anthem Press, 2022. This book explores the pleasures and challenges of the epic imagination, the persistent appeal of epic creation for artists and of epic experience for...
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