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This study argues for the centrality of dance to the style and structure of three modern epics: H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, William Carlos Williams' Paterson and James Joyce's Ulysses. My critical approach is twofold: I examine how the modern epic is conceptualized through dance aest…

This dissertation is concerned with the study of the Sistāni Cycle of Epics (SCE), a body of literature produced in its extant form from 11-13 th centuries in Iran. It was during the same period that Iran's grand epic, the Shāhnāmeh, was composed. Although Ferdowsi, the composer…

Critics traditionally have defined the epic as a genre marked by a central authoritative and culturally influential voice. Consequently, they have viewed many twentieth-century long poems as fragmented, failed epics or not as epics at all. Using and revising the theory of hetero…

The dissertation traces the origins of the Persian historical epic, the Shahnamah, and the development of sub-genres of epic on the premise that historiography constitutes the common ground of all forms of Persian epic. It also treats the three types of epic heroes. The texts mo…