Download or read book Heroic Poets Poetic Heroes written by Dwight F. Reynolds and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.
Download or read book Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry The traditions written by Robert Auty and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroic Poetry written by Cm Bowra and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book English Epic and Heroic Poetry written by William Macneile Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry and the Essay on Heroic Poetry written by Samuel Wesley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry and the Essay on Heroic Poetry" by Samuel Wesley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Digenes Akrites written by Roderick Beaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called variously the ’Byzantine epic’, the ’epic of Modern Greece’, an ’epic-romance’ and ’romance’, the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its rediscovery towards the end of the nineteenth century, exerted a tenacious hold on the imagination of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and from many countries of the world, as well as of writers and public figures in Greece. There are many reasons for this, not least among them the prestige accorded to ’national epics’ in the nineteenth century and for some time afterwards. Another reason must surely be the work’s uniqueness: there is nothing quite like Digenes Akrites in either Byzantine or Modern Greek literature. However, this uniqueness is not confined to its problematic place in the literary ’canon’ and literary history. As historical testimony, and in its complex relationship to later oral song and to older myth and story-telling, Digenes Akrites again has no close parallels of comparable length in Byzantine or Modern Greek culture. Whether as a literary text, a historical source, or a manifestation of an oral popular culture, Digenes Akrites remains, more than a century after its rediscovery, persistently enigmatic. This Byzantine ’epic’ or ’romance’ has now become the focus of new research across a range of disciplines since the publication in 1985 of a radically revised edition based on the Escorial text of the poem, by Stylianos Alexiou. The papers in this volume, derived from a conference held in May 1992 at King’s College London, seeks to present and discuss the results of this new research. Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to Byzantine Heroic Poetry is the second in the series published by Variorum for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London.
Download or read book Oral Poetry written by Ruth Finnegan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977-04-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral poetry is a wide subject that ranges from American 'folk-songs', Eskimo lyrics or popular songs, to the heroic poems of Homer and distinct epic composers in Asia and the Pacific. Unlike previous works, this book takes a broad comparative view and considers oral poetry from Africa, Asia and Oceania as well as Europe and America. Dr Finnegan includes in her argument the results of topical research from all over the world, thus illuminating and suggesting fresh conclusions to many controversies: the nature of 'oral tradition'; possible connections between types of poetry and types of society; the differences between oral and written communication; and the role of poets in non-literate societies.
Download or read book Mock Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of eighteenth- and early nineteeenth-century poetry in English, French and German, focusing on the mock epic (from Pope's Dunciad to Byron's Don Juan) as a critique of serious epic poetry and also as a literary means of exploring a wide range of sexual and religious issues in a humorous style.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals Turkic Oral Epic Poetry 1992 written by Karl Reichl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992, Turkic Oral Poetry provides an expert introduction to the oral epic traditions of the Turkic peoples of central Asia. The book seeks to remedy the problem of non-specialists’ lack of access to information on the Turkic traditions, and in the process, it provides scholars in various disciplines with material for comparative investigation. The book focuses on "central traditions" of this region, specifically those of the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpak’s, and Kirghiz and looks at the historical and linguistic background to a survey of the earliest documents, portraits of the singers and of performance considerations of genre, story-patterns, and formulaic diction, and discussions of "composition in performance", memory, rhetoric and diffusion.
Download or read book Hugh MacDiarmid s Epic Poetry written by Riach Alan Riach and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry
Download or read book Epic Poetry in Swahili written by Jan Knappert and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1983 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Prophecy of Merlin An heroic poem concerning the wonderful success of a project now on foot to make the River from the Severn to Stroud navigable Translated from the original Latin annexed with notes explanatory written by and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroic Poetry in the Anglo Saxon Period written by Jess B. Bessinger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen essays by some of the most prominent British and North American students of heroic poetry, plus two poems and a bibliography, are gathered here to honor Jess B. Bessinger Jr., whose innovative studies of heroic poetry have instructed a generation of scholars and whose performances of Anglo-Saxon poems are legendary.
Download or read book The Rise and Development of the Mock Heroic Poem in England from 1660 to 1714 written by Guy Linton Diffenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples written by Bruce Dickins and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Man Epic Poetry written by Harold Victor Routh and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book god man and epic poetry written by H. V. Routh and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1927 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
