With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry. * The first book to gain new insights into the topic of 'epic and history' through in-depth cross-cultural comparisons * Covers epic traditions across the globe and across a wide range of time periods * Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by two internationally regarded scholars * An important reference for scholars and students interested in history and literature across a broad range of disciplines
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"The reader will surely find useful and insightful comparativematerial in all the essays." (Bryn Mawr ClassicalReview, February 2011)
"I would recommend this volume both for scholars of epic andheroic literature (especially if they have interests in comparativeliterature or in questions of orality and historicity), who will nodoubt enjoy its generally succinct essays with pertinentbibliography for each tradition." (Bmcreview, 9 February 2011)
"Essential. Graduate students and researches." (Choice, October2010)"A remarkably wide-ranging collection, deeply learned, ecumenicalin spirit, and diverse in its approaches."
Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
"This book is an 'epic' undertaking in its ownright, extending across four millennia in time, and most of theglobe in setting. The challenging mosaic of studies takesshape as an exploratory chart of how memory, story-telling and thedesire for heroes may relate to what we might want to call'History'".
Oliver Taplin, Magdalen College, OxfordUniversity
"Answers come and go. Questions persist. One of the manyvirtues of this volume of collected essays is its ability tore-open some fundamental discussions about epic, history, genre,and memory. It does so in a sophisiticated, learned, and wideranging manner. This book problematizes the relationships betweenliterary form, fact, and tradition in a way that will inform andexcite scholars in many fields for many years."
Ahuvia Kahane, Royal Holloway, University of London
"I would recommend this volume both for scholars of epic andheroic literature (especially if they have interests in comparativeliterature or in questions of orality and historicity), who will nodoubt enjoy its generally succinct essays with pertinentbibliography for each tradition." (Bmcreview, 9 February 2011)
"Essential. Graduate students and researches." (Choice, October2010)"A remarkably wide-ranging collection, deeply learned, ecumenicalin spirit, and diverse in its approaches."
Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
"This book is an 'epic' undertaking in its ownright, extending across four millennia in time, and most of theglobe in setting. The challenging mosaic of studies takesshape as an exploratory chart of how memory, story-telling and thedesire for heroes may relate to what we might want to call'History'".
Oliver Taplin, Magdalen College, OxfordUniversity
"Answers come and go. Questions persist. One of the manyvirtues of this volume of collected essays is its ability tore-open some fundamental discussions about epic, history, genre,and memory. It does so in a sophisiticated, learned, and wideranging manner. This book problematizes the relationships betweenliterary form, fact, and tradition in a way that will inform andexcite scholars in many fields for many years."
Ahuvia Kahane, Royal Holloway, University of London