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...
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...
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