The Epic voice
By: edited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher.
Contributors: Hodder, Alan D.; Meagher, Robert E.
Series: Hampshire studies in the humanities
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Epic literature -- History and criticism.
Description: All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these stories will invite and provoke comparative questions and discussions of similar or parallel images, episodes, cultural values, narrative strategies, and poetic forms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.