Epic adventures

heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents

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English
Pages
197

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Cover of: Epic Adventures: Literature
Epic Adventures: Literature: Research and Science Series
February 1, 2004, Lit Verlag
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Epic adventures: heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents
2004, Lit, Distributed in North America by Transaction Pub.
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Münster, New Brunswick, U.S.A

Table of Contents

Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier
The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa
the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen
The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen
A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman
Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann
The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon
Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide
The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen
The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson
The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst
The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof
An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier
The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie
Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney
The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193).

Series
Literature -- v. 3, Literatur (Lit (Firm)) -- Bd. 3.

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Dewey Decimal Class
809.132
Library of Congress
PN56.E65 E65 2004, PN56.E65E65 2004

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Pagination
197 p. :
Number of pages
197

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18469112M
ISBN 10
3825867587
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5343339

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