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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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© 1999 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 1999 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. CONTENTS IX
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1
  5. SECTION ONE On the Margins of the Scribal From Oral Epic to Text
  6. 1 Epic as Genre 21
  7. 2 Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer 33
  8. 3 The Arabic Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man 54
  9. 4 Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth- Century Balkan Literature 69
  10. SECTION TWO Epic and Authority
  11. 5 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic 89
  12. 6 Tasso's Trees Epic and Local Culture 108
  13. 7 Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India 131
  14. SECTION THREE The Boundaries of Epic Performance
  15. 8 Problematic Performances: Overlapping Genres and Levels of Participation in Arabic Oral Epic-Singing 155
  16. 9 Worshiping Epic Villains: A Kaurava Cult in the Central Himalayas1 169
  17. SECTION FOUR Epic and Lament
  18. 10 The Natural Tears of Epic 189
  19. 11 The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic 203
  20. 12 The Role of Lament in the Growth and Eclipse of Roman Epic 221
  21. SECTION FIVE Epic and Pedagogy
  22. 13 Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology 239
  23. 14 Walcott's Omeros The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World 270
  24. CONTRIBUTORS 297
  25. INDEX 301
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
This chapter is in the book Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520919730-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. CONTENTS IX
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1
  5. SECTION ONE On the Margins of the Scribal From Oral Epic to Text
  6. 1 Epic as Genre 21
  7. 2 Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer 33
  8. 3 The Arabic Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man 54
  9. 4 Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth- Century Balkan Literature 69
  10. SECTION TWO Epic and Authority
  11. 5 Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic 89
  12. 6 Tasso's Trees Epic and Local Culture 108
  13. 7 Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India 131
  14. SECTION THREE The Boundaries of Epic Performance
  15. 8 Problematic Performances: Overlapping Genres and Levels of Participation in Arabic Oral Epic-Singing 155
  16. 9 Worshiping Epic Villains: A Kaurava Cult in the Central Himalayas1 169
  17. SECTION FOUR Epic and Lament
  18. 10 The Natural Tears of Epic 189
  19. 11 The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic 203
  20. 12 The Role of Lament in the Growth and Eclipse of Roman Epic 221
  21. SECTION FIVE Epic and Pedagogy
  22. 13 Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology 239
  23. 14 Walcott's Omeros The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World 270
  24. CONTRIBUTORS 297
  25. INDEX 301
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