 | The Story of AL;Being of Growth (Volume 1)
Publication Date: May 17, 2012This Novel....An experiment in literature that is made with respect to the classical technique but approached with a beat punk aesthetic. A story set in a world like, and unlike our own.Your narrotor/s being a character that seeks something he cant define, and slowly does.A journey in a post post apocalyptic world where the only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.So let us follow, and see through eyes not our own reading between the lines. ...
 |  | An Epitome of Biblical History: Glosses on Walter of Chatillon's 'Alexandreis' 4.176-274 (Toronto Medieval Latin Texts)
Publication Date: January 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 088844480X | ISBN-13: 978-0888444806An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to...
|  | The Vision of MAC Conglinne: Aislinge Meic Conglinne (Medieval Studies) (Irish Edition)
Publication Date: June 30, 2010| Series: Medieval Studies Aislinge Meic Conglinne, an anonymous Middle Irish romance, recounts the efforts of the eponymous hero to exchange the hardscrabble life of a clerical scholar for the prestigious life of a poet. Mac Conglinne wins the patronage of Cathal mac Finguine, the king of Munster, after rescuing him from a demon of gluttony by reciting a fantastic, food-laden vision of alternate worlds. An accomplished and original eleventh-century satiric narrative poem, Aislinge Meic Conglinne is now available for the first time as a stand-alone translation....
|  | Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521558484 | ISBN-13: 978-0521558488| Edition: Cambridge This book is a comparative study of oral poetics in literate cultures, focusing on the problems of textual fluidity in the transmission of Homeric poetry over half a millennium, from the Archaic through the Hellenistic periods of ancient Greece.It stresses the role of performance and the performer in the re-creative process of composition-in-performance.It addresses questions of authority and authorship in the making of oral poetry, and it examines the efforts of ancient scholars to edit...
|  | Homeric Moments: Clues to Delight in Reading the Odyssey and the Iliad
Publication Date: September 1, 2002"Written with wit and clarity, this book will be of value to those reading the Odyssey and the Iliad for the first time and to those teaching it to beginners."-Library JournalIn 48 brief chapters, Eva Brann delves beneath the captivating surface of Homer's epics to explore the inner connections and layers of meaning that have made these intricately constructed works "the marvels of the ages." ...
|  | Les Chetifs: Volume 5 of the Old French Crusade Cycle
Publication Date: September 30, 1981| ISBN-10: 0817300236 | ISBN-13: 978-0817300234The Old French Crusade Cycle consists of a series of epic poems that together form a cycle concerning the First Crusade and the legendary events associated with Godefroi de Buillon. The entire cycle comprises eight volumes, which are being published as editing is completed. In Volume V, Les Chetifs(The Captives), the fabulous adventures of a group of crusaders captured by the Saracens are recounted. The present edition is based on the best extant verse manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque National, Fonds F...
|  | Paradise Lost(MAXNotes Literature Guides)
Publication Date: June 9, 1995| Series: MAXnotes Literature Guides MAXnotes offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature, presented in a lively and interesting fashion.Written by literary experts who currently teach the subject, MAXnotes will enhance your understanding and enjoyment of the work. MAXnotes are designed to stimulate independent thought about the literary work by raising various issues and thought-provoking ideas and questions.MAXnotes cover the essentials of what one should know about each work, including an overall summary, character lists, an explanation and discussion of...
|  | Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse
Publication Date: May 2002On the occasion of the poet's one-hundredth birthday, this masterwork is at last available in its entirety in English. When, on the eve of the Second World War, Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963)—Turkey's most acclaimed and popular poet—was sentenced to twenty-eight years in prison for his Communist beliefs, he embarked on the writing of his epic, Human Landscapes from My Country. This 17,000-line verse-novel is made up of a traveler's vivid encounters with Turkish men and women from all walks of life. In colloquial language, Hikmet stages their private hopes and gr...
|  | Marko the Prince: Serbo-Croat Heroic Songs
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| | The Wanderer (Old English Library)
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|  | Spenser's Arthur
Publication Date: February 20, 1997| ISBN-10: 0761806598 | ISBN-13: 978-0761806592This book explores the political and intellectual ideology of the British Arthurian tradition, particularly the delineation of the figure of Arthur as a cultural icon. Spenserian's have tended to isolate The Faerie Queene from the Arthurian tradition. This book re-reads that tradition, revealing notions of histobiography, national identity, and national destiny which are powerfully present in Spenser's great Tudor epic and contrapuntally in his "A View to the Present State of England." ...
|  | Paradise Lost (Bloom's Reviews)
Publication Date: July 1999| Series: Bloom's Reviews According to Harold Bloom, John Milton intended Paradise Lost to be a theodicy--justifying the ways of God to men and women. Examine various aspects of this work through some of the most prominent critics on the subject. A brief biography of Milton is included, along with thematic and structural analysis of his epic poem.This series is edited by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University; Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English, New York University Graduate School. These texts are the ideal aid for all stu...
|  | Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics
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|  | Epic and Epoch: History of a Genre (Studies in Comparative Literature)
Publication Date: January 15, 1994| Series: Studies in Comparative Literature Epic and Epoch is a collection of essays based on the works of artists such as Homer, Vergil, Statius, Ovid, Dante, among others. The essays in this book are not only based on history, but on various interpretations of a genre. Rhetorical, literary historical, feminist, and cultural are a few of several perspectives represented in this book. ...
|  | Beowulf: An Imitative Translation
Publication Date: 1988The name "Beowulf" lingers in our collective memory, although today fewer people have heard the tale of the Germanic hero's fight with Grendel, the dreadful Monster of the Mere, as recounted in this Anglo-Saxon epic. This edition of Beowulf makes the poem more accessible than ever before. Ruth Lehmann's imitative translation is the only one available that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original. The characteristic features of Anglo-Saxon poetry-- alliterative verse with first-syllable stress, flexible word...
| | Counterpoint and Symbol
Publication Date: February 1982An inquiry into the rhythm of Milton's epic style. This is a matter concerning which the prosodists have had little to say, their main concern in "Paradise Lost" having been the individual line.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY:Books for College Libraries. ...
|  | Backbone
Publication Date: October 20, 2000A book of poetry from the heart and Soul of a woman. ...
|  | Heroic song and heroic legend (Oxford paperbacks)
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|  | Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World (Suny Series, the Margins of Literature)
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|  | Wolf's Milk: The Lost Notebooks of Juan Sweeney
Publication Date: February 21, 2012The letter before A is silence. -- Juan Sweeney from the Translator's Note: Little is known about the life of Juan Sweeney de las Minas de Cobre. He grew up between Andalusia, Ireland, Oklahoma and Bolivia, lived centuries ago and has yet to be born. Vicente Huidobro wrote in a letter to Sweeney, “Reading these poems, one desires annihilation and love in equal measures. One tastes metal, as of an asteroid belt of old trains passing overhead.” Juan Sweeney preferred riding on the backs of trains to being seated inside; he loved cheese and whisk...
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