The Epic

Author : Gregory E. Rutledge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136194835
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic Trickster in American Literature written by Gregory E. Rutledge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms characterizing Africa. Challenging this binary and the exceptionalism that underlies anti-hegemonic efforts even today, this book begins with the scholarly foundations that mapped out African trickster continuities in the United States and excavated the aesthetics of traditional African epic performances. Rutledge locates trickster-like capacities within the epic hero archetype (the "epic trickster" paradigm) and constructs an Homeric Diaspora, which is to say that the modern Homeric performance foundation lies at an absolute time and distance away from the ancient storytelling performance needed to understand the cautionary aesthetic inseparable from epic potential. As traditional epic performances demonstrate, unchecked epic trickster dynamism anticipates not only brutal imperialism and creative diversity, but the greatest threat to everyone, an eco-apocalypse. Relying upon the preeminent scholarship on African-American trickster-heroes, traditional African heroic performances, and cultural studies approaches to Greco-Roman epics, Rutledge traces the epic trickster aesthetic through three seminal African-American novels keenly attuned to the American Homeric Diaspora: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Author : Helen Lovatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016118
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic Gaze written by Helen Lovatt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-envisions epic from Homer to Nonnus through theories of the gaze.

Author : Pablo Cartaya
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101997249
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora written by Pablo Cartaya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela’s restaurant. Maybe. But this summer also includes Carmen, a poetry enthusiast who moves into Arturo’s apartment complex and turns his stomach into a deep fryer. He almost doesn’t notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight, and as he schemes with Carmen, Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí. Funny and poignant, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora is the vibrant story of a family, a striking portrait of a town, and one boy's quest to save both, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia.

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Greek Epic written by Gilbert Murray and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Merchant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315316676
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Epic written by Paul Merchant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented itself over time. After unpicking the defining aspects of an epic, the book tracks the literary tradition from the classical period through to modern day. Exploring major texts such as Beowulf, Odyssey, Divina Comedia, The Faerie Queene and Ulysses, this work will be a valuable resource for those studying the epic and English literature.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hindustan Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. B. Hainsworth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520368592
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Epic written by J. B. Hainsworth and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153857X
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lyrical in Epic Time written by David Der-wei Wang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait. The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese—and global—modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time.