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"Epic Negation examines the dialectical turn of modernist poetry over the interwar period, arguing that late modernism inverts the method of Ezra Pound's "poem including history" to conceive a negated mode of epic, predicated on the encryption of disarticulated historical conten…
This volume opens up new perspectives on Babylonian and Assyrian literature, through the lens of a pivotal passage in the Gilgamesh Flood story. It shows how, using a nine-line message where not all was as it seemed, the god Ea inveigled humans into building the Ark. The volume …
"When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song. This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of kleos and the interposition…
This book studies the relationship between epic literature and other art forms such as painting, sculpture, and architecture. Why, the book asks, the epic heroes and themes so ubiquitous in French Renaissance art are widely celebrated whereas the same period's literary epics, fr…
The volume examines the cultural significance of gold in European epic poetry -- or more precisely, imagined golden objects in the context of the narrative worlds of the Old English, Norse, Latin, Old High German, and Romance literatures of the Early and High Middle Ages. The te…
This compendium (4 vols.) studies the continuity, flexibility, and variation of structural elements in epic narratives. It provides an overview of the structural patterns of epic poetry by means of a standardized, stringent terminology. Both diachronic developments and changes w…
Structures of epic poetry
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Die Reihe "Historische Dialogforschung" eröffnet ihre Publikationen mit einem Tagungsband, der mit seiner methodischen Ausrichtung nicht nur an der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft steht, sondern auch interdisziplinär komparatist…