Author: Robert AutyPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547720
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions
Author: Robert AutyPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780900547720
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes
Author: Dwight F. ReynoldsPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501723235
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry
Author: Arthur Thomas HattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Singing the Past
Author: Karl ReichlPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801437366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French and that they can offer scholars new insights into the oral background of these medieval texts.Reichl draws on his research in Central Asia to discuss questions regarding performance as well as the singers' training, role in society, and repertoire. He asserts that heroic poetry and epic are primarily concerned with the interpretation of the past in song: the courageous deeds of ancestors, the search for tribal and societal roots, and the definition and transmission of cultural values. Reichl finds that in these traditions the heroic epic is part of a generic system that includes historical and eulogistic poetry as well as heroic lays, a view that has diachronic implications for medieval poetry.Singing the Past reminds readers that because much medieval poetry was composed for oral recitation, both the Turkic and the medieval heroic poems must always be appreciated as poetry in performance, as sound listened to, as words spoken or sung.
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: Characteristics and techniques
Author: John Bryan HainsworthPublisher: MHRA
ISBN: 9780947623197
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
Author: Margaret BeissingerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520210387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.
Epic in American Culture
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421404893
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This book investigates the concept of what it means to be 'epic' and its form in American life, literature, and art from the country's early days.
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry
Author: Arthur Thomas HattoPublisher:
ISBN: 9780900547720
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Heroic Epic and Saga
Author: Felix J. OinasPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings
Author: Olga M. DavidsonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501733974
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
A masterpiece of Persian Classical epic, the Shahnama or Book of Kings was composed by Abu'l-Qasem Ferdowsi at the beginning of the eleventh century. Because the Shahnama presents itself as a chronicle of the reigns of the shahs from the primordial founders to the Sasanian dynasty which ended in 651, scholarly attention has centered on the question of its historical accuracy. Addressing the literary as well as the historical and mythological aspects of the Shahnama, Olga M. Davidson makes this centerpiece of Iranian culture accessible to Western readers. Drawing on recent work in epic studies and oral poetics, Davidson considers analogies with Classical and medieval European narratives as she investigates the poem's social contexts. Her interpretation of the Shahnama focuses on both the figure of the poet himself and on his protagonists-the superhuman hero Rostam and the historical or historicized shahs. Exploring the Shahnama as an example of court poetry designed to glorify the idea of empire, Davidson identifies as a driving force of Ferdowsi's narrative a strong current of antagonism between king and hero. Ironically, she shows, it is the epic hero himself who poses the greatest threat to the concept of kingship that he is sworn to defend. Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings will be welcomed by readers working in such fields as comparative literature, Middle Eastern Studies, folklore, literary theory, and comparative religion.