Epics for students
Subtitle: presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied epics
By: Sara Constantakis, project editor
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning; Gale
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 845
ISBN-13: 9781414476216; 9781414476223; 9781414476230; 9781414476247
Subjects: Stories, plots; Epic literature; History and criticism
Description: Provides critical overviews of literary epics of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Includes discussions of themes, characters, literary traditions and cultural context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also available as an e-book.
Table of contents: title: Vol. 1.; title: Aeneid  -- by Virgil; title: Beowulf  -- anonymous; title: The cantos  -- by Ezra Pound; title: El Cid / anonymous --; title: Divine comedy  -- by Dante Alighieri; title: Epic of Gilgamesh  -- anonymous; title: The faerie queene  -- by Edmund Spenser; title: Gerusalemme liberata  -- by Torquato Tasso; title: Iliad  -- by Homer -- Kalevala / -- by Elias Lo nnrot; title: The lord of the rings  -- by J.R.R. Toldien; title: Mahabharata  -- anonymous ; -- attributed to Vyasa; title: Les mise rables  -- by Victor Hugo -- vol. 2.; title: Le morte d'Arthur / by Thomas Malory --; title: Nibelungenlied  -- anonymous; title: Odyssey / by Homer --; title: Omeros  -- by Derek Walcott; title: On the nature of things  -- by Titus Lucretius Carus; title: Paradise lost  -- by John Milton; title: Pharsalia  -- by Marcus Annaeus Lucan; title: Poetic Edda  -- anonymous; title: The song of Igor's campaign  -- anonymous; title: Song of Roland  -- anonymous; title: Sundiata  -- by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate; title: Ta in bo  cu ailnge  -- anonymous; title: The tale of Genji  -- by Lady Murasaki Shikibu; title: War and peace -- by Leo Tolstoy.