Epic adventures
Subtitle: heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents
By: edited by Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier.
Contributors: Jansen, Jan.; Maier, Hendrik M. J.
Series: Literature -- v. 3; Literatur (Lit (Firm)) -- Bd. 3.
Publisher: Lit; Distributed in North America by Transaction Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Münster; New Brunswick, U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Epic literature -- History and criticism.; Heroes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193).
Table of contents: title: Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier; title: The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa; title: the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen; title: The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen; title: A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman; title: Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann; title: The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon; title: Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide; title: The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen; title: The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson; title: The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst; title: The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof; title: An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier; title: The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie; title: Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney; title: The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.