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| 1. |  | Title: Chaucer's Dante: allegory and epic theater in The Canterbury tales  Author: Neuse, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human.Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | European Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Religion | Language and Linguistics | Classics | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The best of the Argonauts: the redefinition of the epic hero in book one of Apollonius's Argonautica Author: Clauss, James Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more real . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Virgil's epic technique Author: Heinze, Richard 1867-1929 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Heinze's study, originally published in German in 1903, remains a classic of Virgil scholarship. This translation makes the book available in English for the first time. Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | Demography | Japan | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement Author: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Middle Eastern History | Popular Culture | Middle Eastern Studies | Ethnic Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The Saga of the Volsungs: the Norse epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer Author: Byock, Jesse L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | History | European History | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. The Sa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The returns of Odysseus: colonization and ethnicity Author: Malkin, Irad Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Anthropology | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: This remarkably rich and multifaceted study of early Greek exploration makes an original contribution to current discussions of the encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks. Focusing in particular on myths about Odysseus and other heroes who visited foreign lands on their mythical voyages homeward a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Economics and Business | Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | South Asia | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern times Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French Studies Publisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The power of Thetis: allusion and interpretation in the Iliad Author: Slatkin, Laura M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classics Publisher's Description: In The Power of Thetis, Laura M. Slatkin reveals the full importance of mythic allusion in Homeric composition and in the experience of Homer's audience. Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through Polynesia Author: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | United States History | East Asia Other | Asian History Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | South Asia Publisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | South Asia | Cinema and Performance Arts | Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items |