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Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal
community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how
divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These
foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South
Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the
values exemplified by such stories' central heroes and heroines. In
Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The
Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded
in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a
respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than 38
hours to complete over 18 nights. Bringing this unique example of
Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck
compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other
culturally significant works - the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the
Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the Bible, and the Epic of
Gilgamesh - establishing this foundational Tamil story as one that
engages with the same universal human struggles and themes present
throughout the world. Copiously illustrated, Hidden Paradigms
provides a fresh example of the power of comparative thinking,
offering a humanistic complement to scientific reasoning.
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Teaching World Epics
Angelica Duran, Jo Ann Cavallo; Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E.F. Beck, David T. Bialock, …
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R1,196
Discovery Miles 11 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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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Teaching World Epics
Angelica Duran, Jo Ann Cavallo; Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Brenda E.F. Beck, David T. Bialock, …
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R2,936
Discovery Miles 29 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
Understanding an epic story's key belief patterns can reveal
community-level values, the nature of familial bonds, and how
divine and human concerns jockey for power and influence. These
foundational motifs remain understudied as they relate to South
Asian folk legends, but are nonetheless crucial in shaping the
values exemplified by such stories' central heroes and heroines. In
Hidden Paradigms, anthropologist Brenda E.F. Beck describes The
Legend of Ponnivala, an oral epic from rural South India. Recorded
in 1965, this story was sung to a group of village enthusiasts by a
respected pair of local bards. This grand legend took more than 38
hours to complete over 18 nights. Bringing this unique example of
Tamil culture to the attention of an international audience, Beck
compares this virtually unknown South Indian epic to five other
culturally significant works - the Ojibwa Nanabush cycle, the
Mahabharata, an Icelandic Saga, the Bible, and the Epic of
Gilgamesh - establishing this foundational Tamil story as one that
engages with the same universal human struggles and themes present
throughout the world. Copiously illustrated, Hidden Paradigms
provides a fresh example of the power of comparative thinking,
offering a humanistic complement to scientific reasoning.
Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen
languages, "Folktales of India" opens the vast narrative world of
Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales
collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and
remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive
boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this
collection emphasize universal human characteristics--truthfulness,
modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is
meant to be savored individually with special attention given to
the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative
styles used. "Folktales of India" offers a superb anthology of
India's bountiful narrative tradition.
"This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . .
It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love
a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative
and scholars of India in general."--Hugh M. Flick, Jr., "Asian
Folklore Studies"
"The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural
subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."--Kunal Chakraborti,
"Contributions to Indian Sociology"
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