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"Passed down by word of mouth through the magic of live performance art for a millennium and a half till its scholarly transcription in the late 19th century, the Armenian epic Daredevils of Sasun presents a rich legacy of accumulated folk wisdom. This monograph is an introduction to the epic, maintaining a balance between the needs of a scholarly and more popular readership. Contextualizing his subject within the epic production of Western Europe, the Slavic lands, Anatolia and the Caucasus, and Central Asia, the author not only provides a summation of research on the epic, but is cogent in defining his own positions, probing new areas, and approaching some old from a new perspective."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mazda Publishers
Language
English
Pages
254

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Subjects
History and criticism, Sasuntsʻi Dawitʻ, Armenian Epic poetry

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Table of Contents

The epic and Armenian history
The epic and mythology
Daredevils of Sasun and earlier Armenian folkloric traditions
The epic's impact on modern Armenian literate culture
Man and community
The "external" man
Epic harmony
The nature and significance of epic action
The hero's spiritual world
Evolution of the epic hero
The epic adversary and negative hero
Humor in the epic
The history of the House of Sasun
The Christian perspective on history and Daredevils of Sasun
The heroes' childhood
The characterization of Little Mher
The epic world in time and space
The countryside and state of Sasun
Walnut rye and eglantine wheat
Traces of world unity
God, saints, and idols in the epic world
The narrator and the audience
Narrative clarity and dynamism
Epic repetitions and recurring epithets
The hero's speech.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published in
Costa Mesa, Calif
Series
Armenian studies series -- no. 12

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891/.99216
Library of Congress
PK8547.S27 Z6513 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
254

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL16505870M
Internet Archive
daredevilsofsasu0000eghi
ISBN 13
9781568591674
LCCN
2008007302
OCLC/WorldCat
192082690
Goodreads
3061979

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