 | Homer's The Iliad and The Odyseey: A Biography
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 |  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | The Odyssey
Publication Date: August 26, 2002The Odyssey is considered to be one of the greatest pieces of world literature. Its basic story--the homecoming of Odysseus--is widely known. Although it has often been translated, earlier versions do not give the reader the full sense of its oral epic nature as a song that came into being through a long tradition of sung performances before writing was widely practiced. When finally written down, it retained its oral-formulaic nature in ways that are clearly discernible, and which this translation successfully captures. Rodney Merrill strictly adheres to the...
|  | 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...
|  | The Shah Namah: The Epic of Kings (Forgotten Books)
Publication Date: February 6, 2008Book Description: "Shahname, or Shahnama "The Book of Kings", is an enormous poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 [AD] and is the national epic of the Persian speaking world. The Shahnameh tells the mythical and historical past of Iran from the creation of the world up until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.Aside from its literary importance the Shahnameh, written in almost pure Persian, has been pivotal for reviving the Persian language subsequent to the influence of Arabic. This voluminous work, regarded by Persian sp...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
| | 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) ...
| | Prosody and Purpose in the English Renaissance
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|  | 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...
|  | Silius Italicus: Punica, Volume I, Books 1-8 (Loeb Classical Library No. 277)
Publication Date: January 1, 1934| ISBN-10: 0674993055 | ISBN-13: 978-0674993051Silius (T. Catius Silius Italicus), 25 CE–101, was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary man and collector. He revered the work of Cicero, whose Tusculan villa he owned, and that of Virgil, whose tomb at Naples he likewise owned and near which he lived. His epic Punica, in 17 books, on the second War with Carthage (218–202 BCE), is based for facts largely on Livy's account. Conceived as a contrast be...
|  | 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! ...
|  | 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...
|  | Childlike Achilles: Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Iliad
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|  | Inconsistency in Roman Epic: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts)
Publication Date: May 14, 2007| ISBN-10: 0521646421 | ISBN-13: 978-0521646420How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. Building on recent work on both Greek and Roman authors, this book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic. After a chapter surveying Greek background material including Homer, tragedy, Plato and the Alexandrians, five chapters argue that comparative study of t...
| | The Iliad of Homer (The Library of Liberal Arts)
Publication Date: May 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0195068254 | ISBN-13: 978-0195068252This translation of Homer's "Iliad" by the poet and classicist Ennis Rees attempts to be both faithful to the original and accessible to the modern reader. ...
|  | A Time Before Slaughter
Publication Date: November 1, 2009In this epic poem, Paul Nelson re-enacts the history of Auburn, Washington, originally known as the town of Slaughter. Written in the spirit of William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, and Michael McClure, A Time Before Slaughter explores the history of this Northwestern place from the myths of Native people to the xenophobia toward Japanese-Americans, from the urge to control to the hunger for liberation.Set against the backdrop of a towering dormant volcano (Mt. Rainier), the beauty of the verse pays homage to the beauty of the place. "Here's one more big h...
|  | Beowulf
Publication Date: June 14, 2012This is a new modern English of the classic epic poem in full. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by a being known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, G...
|  | 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...
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