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 | 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...
by jac3 | Jun 22, 2022 | Publications
Oltre la mer salee: Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of the Société Rencesvals pour l’étude des épopées romanes, Toronto, 13–17 August 2018. Edited by Dorothea Kullmann and Anthony Fredette. May 2022. Studies and Texts 227; Toronto Studies in Romance...
by jac3 | Apr 21, 2022 | Publications
AOQU 4.2 (2023). World Epics in Puppet Theater Until recently, epic narratives remained at the forefront of their respective cultures through folk performance traditions, especially puppetry arts. Although this unique form of creative popular expression (at once...
by jac3 | Mar 8, 2022 | Publications
The Oral Epic: From Performance to Interpretation by Karl Reichl Routledge 2022 This book focuses on the performance of oral epics and explores the significance of performance features for the interpretation of epic poetry. The leading question of the book is how the...
by Aurora Collado | Dec 5, 2021 | Publications
The new Anthem World Epic and Romance series publishes rigorous, innovative scholarly studies dealing with epics and chivalric romances from across the globe, both written and oral, in poetry and prose, as well as adaptations in theater and cinema. The series seeks to...
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