 | Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance
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 |  | Understanding Great Literature - Understanding Beowulf
Publication Date: October 17, 2003| Series: Understanding Great Literature The Old English poem Beowulf describes a world of kings, knights, demons, and epic battles between the forces of good and evil.Through vivid descriptions of Germanic society, the anonymous Beowulf poet also describes the complex, often-violent world of a people still making the transition from paganism to Christianity.This useful and comprehensive volume offers students of the poem a guide to the history of its creation, as well as a summary of its plot, characters, and principal themes. (20020701) ...
|  | Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad
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|  | Milton's Epic Voice: The Narrator in Paradise Lost
Publication Date: October 15, 1983| ISBN-10: 0226244687 | ISBN-13: 978-0226244686Although Paradise Lost is one of the greatest poems in the English language, it is also among the most difficult and intimidating, especially to unsophisticated readers. One of the most accessible critical studies of Paradise Lost—and one frequently recommended by those teaching Milton—is Anne Ferry's Milton's Epic Voice. ...
|  | Gilgamesh
Release Date: October 19, 2004In his thrillingly contemporary retelling of the world’s oldest epic, award-winning poet Derrek Hines brings us as close as we may ever come to re-creating the power it had over its original listeners more than four thousand years ago in the ancient Near East.Gilgamesh, the semi-divine ruler of Uruk, is a larger-than-life bully and abuser of his people. In order to tame the arrogant king, the gods create the wild and handsome Enkidu. But after Enkidu and Gilgamesh become fast friends, they defy the gods in a series of outsized adventures that brings Gilga...
| | Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance
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|  | Authors to Themselves: Milton and the Revelation of History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History)
Publication Date: January 29, 1988| ISBN-10: 0521340373 | ISBN-13: 978-0521340373Grossman examines the narrative form of Paradise Lost to discover Milton's thoroughly modern concept of self. Banished from paradise, the epic poem's protagonists become "authors to themselves in all/Both what they judge and what they choose," left to create their own story in relation to the story already written by God. Grossman believes the resulting structure of the poem must be understood in the context of seventeenth-century historical and theological developments, specifically Bacon's notion of histor...
|  | Homer's The Odyssey (Barron's Book Notes)
Publication Date: October 1, 1984| Series: Barron's Book Notes Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers. ...
|  | Homer's The Iliad and The Odyseey: A Biography
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|  | Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship, Translated from the Old French (Stylus: Studies in Medieval Culture)
Publication Date: February 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0472066471This prose translation of the medieval French verse narrative Ami and Amile recounts the legendary friendship of two valiant knights who are as indistinguishable as twin brothers. Ami and Amile serve Charlemagne together, face together the hatred of an archetypal villain, confront the daunting challenges of women and love, and accept extraordinary sacrifices for each other's sake. Miracles mark the end of their lives, and their shared tomb becomes a pilgrims' shrine.The compelling translation by Samuel N. Rosenberg and Samuel Danon is ...
|  | Talking Trojan
Publication Date: June 1996| ISBN-10: 0847682552 | ISBN-13: 978-0847682553In this penetrating new look at the use of language in the Iliad, Hilary Mackie examines the portrayal of the opposing forces in terms not only of nationality but of linguistics. The way the Greeks and the Trojans speak, Mackie argues, reflects their disparate cultural structures and their relative positions in the Trojan War. While Achaean speech is aggressive and public, intended to preserve social order, Trojan language is more reflective, private, and introspective. Mackie identifies the differences between Gre...
|  | The Iliad (The Samuel Butler Prose Translation)
Publication Date: January 1, 2009"The Iliad" is a classical epic poem about the events during the last year of the Trojan War and the fall of Troy. The tale revolves around the Greek warrior Achilles, and his anger toward the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon. While the poem shows evidence of a long oral tradition and thus most likely multiple authors, the ancient Greek poet Homer is generally attributed as its author. "The Iliad", which is thought to be the oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek language, is considered one of the most important literary works of classical antiquity....
| | Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays
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|  | Grendel
Release Date: August 12, 1971The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community (Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book)
Publication Date: March 31, 1999| Series: Joan Palevsky Classic Literature Book The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and literary traditions--ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slav...
| | The Song of Girart of Vienne by Bertrand De Bar-Sur-Aube: A Twelfth-Century Chanson De Geste (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)
Publication Date: June 1999| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in th...
|  | Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals in the Iliad
Publication Date: November 7, 2005| ISBN-10: 0521855292 | ISBN-13: 978-0521855297| Edition: 1St Edition In Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society, Margo Kitts focuses on oath-making narratives found in the Iliad through which she articulates a theory of ritualized violence. She analyzes ritual paradigms, metaphors, fictions, and poetic registers as oath-making principles, which she then traces through Homeric references and texts from the ancient New East. Discussing ritual features that are common to acts of religious violence throughout the world, Kitts makes use of the theory of ritua...
|  | Untitled Epic Poem On the History of Industrialization
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|  | America Bound: An Epic for Our Time
Publication Date: February 15, 2007In this richly polyphonic text, Radavich couples narrative verse with interlocking dramatic monologues to deliver a revisionist history of America since the second World War - an account across generations so inclusive as to seem Whitmanesque - encompassing personal and national identities, conscience and community. 'I hear the voices of America,' writes Radavich, and through them AMERICA BOUND renders a cultural landscape altered in the wake of the Twentieth Century. By 'listening to the voices of those who lived simply for themselves and others in the hea...
|  | Beowulf Poet: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)
Publication Date: December 1968| ISBN-10: 0130735280 | ISBN-13: 978-0130735287An ex-library book in excellent condition! ...
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