Essays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around
the world. Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories
of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have
significant consequences for their lives and their communities.
Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history,
chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel,
epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and
encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World
Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa,
Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are
available in English translations. Useful to instructors of
literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies,
women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume
focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the
adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are
especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics,
national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.
This volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando
Furioso, Giulia Bigolina's Urania, The Book of Dede Korkut, Luis
Vaz de Camões's Os Lusiadas, David of Sassoun, The Epic of Askia
Mohammed, The Epic of Gilgamesh, the epic of Sun-Jata, Alonso de
Ercilla y Zúñiga's La Araucana, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey,
Kalevala, Kebra Nagast, Kudrun, The Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu,
the Mahabharata, Manas, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Mwindo, the
Nibelungenlied, Poema de mio Cid, Popol Wuj, the Ramayana, the
Shahnameh, Sirat Bani Hilal, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene,
Statius's Thebaid, The Tale of the Heike, Three Kingdoms, Gaspar
Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México, and Virgil's
Aeneid.
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