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![]() | Allegorical Poetics and the Epic: The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost ISBN: 9780813161662 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Milton John 1608–1674. Paradise Lost; English poetry -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; European poetry -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Christian poetry English -- History and critic; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Archaeology and the Homeric Epic ISBN: 9781785702983 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Oxbow Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Archaeology -- Greece; Homer -- Influence; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Civilization Homeric; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England: Divina in Laude Voluntas ISBN: 9781487514280 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Christian poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500; Bible -- Criticism interpretation etc -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500; Bible -- In literatur; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic ISBN: 9781512816051 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry German -- History and criticism; German poetry -- Middle High German 1050–1500 -- History and criticism; Women -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages 500–1500; Feminism and literature -- Germany -- History; Women and literature -- Germany --; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Cultural World in Beowulf ISBN: 9781442623033 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Beowulf; Epic poetry English (Old) -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Epic Singers and Oral Tradition ISBN: 9781501731921 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Oral tradition -- History and criticism; Oral-formulaic analysis; Epic poetry -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Eros, Imitation, and the Epic Tradition ISBN: 9781501746147 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry Classical -- History and criticism; Epic poetry -- Classical influences; Imitation (in literature); Homer -- Influence; Virgil. Aeneis; Ariosto Lodovico. 1474-1533. Orlando furioso; Milton John. 1608-1674. Paradise lost; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Goethe's 'Faust' and European Epic: Forgetting the Future ISBN: 9781571136961 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Goethe Johann Wolfgang 1749–1832. Faust; Epic Poetry European -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes ISBN: 9781442622678 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Appreciation; Homer -- Influence; Homer -- Translations; Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Social conflict in literature; European literature -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homer the Preclassic ISBN: 9780520950245 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Oral tradition -- Greece -- History -- To 1500; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition ISBN: 9780520909205 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Religion and ethics; Homer -- Allegory and symbolism; Religion in literature; Allegory; Neoplatonism; Epic poetry -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homer's Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic's Earliest Exegetes ISBN: 9780691197678 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Appreciation -- Greece -- Congresses; Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- Congresses; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory etc. -- Congresses; Authors and readers -- Greece -- History -- Congresses; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homeric Effects in Vergil's Narrative: Updated Edition ISBN: 9781400852482 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Virgil. Aeneis; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500; Latin poetry -- Greek influences; Homer -- Appreciation -- Rome; Imitation in literature; Rome -- In literature; Homer -- Influence; Rhetoric Ancient; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homeric Questions ISBN: 9780292796218 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Technique; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Oral formulaic analysis; Oral tradition -- Greece; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Homeric Responses ISBN: 9780292796362 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Technique; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Oral tradition -- Greece; Oral-formulaic analysis; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic ISBN: 9781442688339 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Valerius Flaccus Gaius 1st cent; Statius P. Papinius (Publius Papinius); Silius Italicus Tiberius Catius; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Kinship in literature; Family in literature; Rome -- History -- Flavians 69–96; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Inescapable Romance: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode ISBN: 9781400870646 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Romanticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | King Rother and His Bride: Quest and Counter-Quests ISBN: 9781571137098 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: König Rother; Courtship in literature; Kings and rulers in literature; Epic poetry German -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience ISBN: 9780472026586 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Criticism Textual; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Epic poetry Greek -- Criticism Textual; Oral interpretation of poetry; Oral tradition -- Greece; Oral -- formulaic analysis; Transmission of texts; Narration (Rhet; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic ISBN: 9780691197692 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English poetry -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Epic poetry English -- History and criticism; Metamorphosis in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Milton's Epics and the Book of Psalms ISBN: 9781400860456 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Milton John 1608–1674. Paradise lost; Milton John 1608–1674. Paradise regained; Epic poetry English -- History and criticism; Christian poetry English -- History and criticism; Bible. O.T. Psalms -- Criticism interpretation etc.; Bible in literatu; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Narrative Pulse of Beowulf: Arrivals and Departures ISBN: 9781442688674 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Beowulf; Epic poetry English (Old) -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Playing the Farmer: Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics ISBN: 9780520950252 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Virgil. Georgica; Agriculture in literature; Didactic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Epic poetry Classical -- History and criticism; Rome -- In literature; Allusions; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language ISBN: 9780804779739 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism; Christian poetry -- History and criticism; Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- History; Negative theology -- Christianity; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Poets and Critics Read Vergil ISBN: 9780300143966 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Virgil -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature; Rome -- In literature; Virgil. Aeneis; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Poets Historical: Dynastic Epic in the Renaissance ISBN: 9780300239652 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry -- History and criticism; Virgil -- Influence; European poetry -- Renaissance 1450-1600 -- History and criticism; Literature Comparative -- Classical and modem; Literature Comparative -- Modern and classical; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt ISBN: 9781487574611 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: English poetry -- Old English ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism -- Congresses; English poetry -- Middle English 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses; English language -- Versification -- Congresses; Epic poetry English (Old) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Reveries of Community: French Epic in the Age of Henri IV, 1572–1616 ISBN: 9780810135857 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Northwestern University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry French -- History and criticism; French poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism; French poetry -- 17th century -- History and criticism; France -- History -- Henry IV 1589–1610 -- In literature; France -- History -- Wars of the Hugue; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey" ISBN: 9781501718304 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer. Odyssey; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature; Bards and bardism in literature; Gods Greek in literature; Heroes in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Spenserian Moments ISBN: 9780674243514 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Spenser Edmund 1552?–1599. Faerie queene; Allegory; Epic poetry English -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Subversive Traditions: Reinventing the West African Epic ISBN: 9781609176136 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Michigan State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry African -- History and criticism; Oral tradition -- Africa West; African fiction (French) -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Oral tradition in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The "Odyssey" in Athens: Myths of Cultural Origins ISBN: 9781501723506 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer. Odyssey; Athens (Greece) -- Religious life and customs; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature; Epic poetry Greek -- Religious aspects; Mythology Greek in literature; Homer -- Knowledge -- Greece --; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton ISBN: 9780472026807 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry European -- History and criticism; European poetry -- Renaissance 1450-1600 -- History and criticism; Petrarca Francesco 1304–1374. Secretum; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Face of Nature: Wit, Narrative, and Cosmic Origins in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" ISBN: 9781400864614 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ovid 43 B.C.–17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses; Latin wit and humor -- History and criticism; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Mythology Classical in literature; Cosmology Ancient in literature; Ovid 43 B.C–17 or 18 A.D. -- Style; Metamorphosi; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Libro de Alexandre: Medieval Epic and Silver Latin ISBN: 9781469642710 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Libra de Alexandre; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Lucan 39-65. Pharsalia; Rhetoric Medieval; Narration (Rhetoric); ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Noble Merchant: Problems of Genre and Lineage in Hervis de Mes ISBN: 9781469642659 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hervis de Metz (Chanson de geste); Hervis de Metz (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and Criticism; Epic poetry French -- History and criticism; Chansons de geste -- History and criticism; Businessmen in literature; Literary form; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Poetics of Speech in the Medieval Spanish Epic ISBN: 9781442687141 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry Spanish -- History and criticism; Spanish poetry -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism ISBN: 9780814274347 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Ohio State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Blake William 1757–1827 -- Criticism and interpretation; Blake William 1757–1827 -- Religion; Political theology; Epic poetry English -- History and criticism; Blake William 1757–1827 -- Political and social views; Prophecies in literature; Blake ; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past ISBN: 9780300188998 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry European -- History and criticism; Epic literature European -- Classical influences; European poetry -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism; European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure ISBN: 9781442682245 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Boiardo Matteo Maria 1440 or 41–1494 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ariosto Lodovico 1474–1533 -- Criticism and interpretation; Tasso Torquato 1544–1595 -- Criticism and interpretation; Epic poetry Italian -- History and criticism; Romances Ital; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Shape of the Round Table: Structures of Middle High German Arthurian Romance ISBN: 9781487583361 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Arthurian romances -- History and criticism; German poetry -- Middle High German 1050–1500 -- History and criticism; Epic poetry German -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Tale of the Tribe: Ezra Pound and the Modern Verse Epic ISBN: 9781400853298 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Epic poetry American -- History and criticism; Pound Ezra Loomis 1885-1972. Cantos; Williams William Carlos 1883-1963. Paterson; Olson Charles 1910-1970. Maximus poems; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Transmission of "Beowulf": Language, Culture, and Scribal Behavior ISBN: 9781501708282 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Beowulf -- Criticism Textual; Epic poetry English (Old) -- Criticism Textual; Transmission of texts -- England -- History -- To 1500; Language and culture -- England -- History -- To 1500; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto ISBN: 9781442666665 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Boiardo Matteo Maria 1440 or 41–1491. Orlando innamorato; Ariosto Lodovico 1474–1533. Orlando furioso; Romances Italian -- History and criticism; Epic poetry Italian -- History and criticism; Geography and literature; National characteristics in lit; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Translations of Power: Narcissim and the Unconscious in Epic History ISBN: 9781501733376 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Psychoanalysis in literature; Narcissism in literature; Subconsciousness in literature; Epic poetry -- History and criticism; European poetry -- Renaissance 1450–1600 -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Homeric and Old English Traditions ISBN: 9781400860883 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Epic poetry English (Old) -- History and criticism; Literature Comparative -- English (Old) and Greek; Literature Comparative -- Greek and English (Old); Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism; Dueling in literature; Heroes in literature; Speech i; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary Discourse ISBN: 9780472025695 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Virgil. Aeneis; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; National characteristics Roman; Literature and society -- Rome; Group identity in literature; Ethnic groups in l; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid ISBN: 9780300147070 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Yale University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Virgil. Aencis; Epic poetry Latin -- History and criticism; Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature; Description (Rhetoric); Rhetoric Ancient; Virgil -- Technique; Ekphrasis; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic Text ISBN: 9780674020467 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Homer -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses; Epic poetry Greek -- History and criticism -- Theory etc. -- Congresses; Epic poetry Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory etc. -- Congresses; Literature Comparative -- Greek and medieval --; ■ Detailed Information |