Biographical note: Phillip Mitsis, New York University, USA, and Christos Tsagalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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The past few decades have seen the development of new critical methods with which the poetic and rhetorical dimensions of ancient Greek texts can be evaluated. In this volume, an international group of distinguished scholars comes together to examine how a wide range of ancient …
Drawing on up-to-date research, this book presents a comprehensive view of the epic tradition from Homer, through Virgil, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser and a host of minor writers who helped create the idiom within which these authors worked, to the great achievements of John Milton.
This collection of essays explores how epic narratives negotiate, define, and transform genre-specific geographical configurations. A team of international scholars engages in an interdisciplinary discussion about how Greek and Roman epic poetry interacts with the historical and…
Nana Asma'u Bint Usman 'dan Fodio, a nineteenth-century Muslim scholar, lived in the region now known as northern Nigeria and was an eyewitness to battles of the largest of the West-African jihads of the era. The preparation and conduct of the jihad provide the topics for Nana A…
This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.
Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what it is for. Focusing on the critical moment in Western literature when the heroic tales of the Greek oral tradition began to be preser…
