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Product Description: A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling. But the unexpected overturning of narrative progress creates complexity and interest, directing the reader's attention to the most powerful elements of a story. Exile, for example, upsets a protagonist's hopes for a happy earthly life, emphasizing spiritual perception instead...read more
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9780786477784 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 31, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A story that follows a simple trajectory is seldom worth telling.
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9780403097296, titled "The Encyclopedia of Texas 1999" | Scholarly Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $175.00 | also contains The Encyclopedia of Texas 1999
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9780786498659 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 4, 2015, cover price $29.95
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9780773443006 | Edwin Mellen Pr, November 15, 2013, cover price $199.95
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9780786463381 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, September 17, 2013, cover price $40.00
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9780786472437 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 8, 2012, cover price $45.00
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9781620323038 | Wipf & Stock Pub, December 20, 2012, cover price $14.00
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9780786441563 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 30, 2009, cover price $35.00
Miscellaneous:
9780786453177 | McFarland & Co, March 11, 2009, cover price $24.99
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9781606080917 | Wipf & Stock Pub, January 8, 2009, cover price $18.00
Product Description: This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions. The work begins with three chapters on ancient poetry. The first examines how the great epics of particular cultures (ancient Greece's Iliad and Odyssey, ancient India's Mahabharata) address specific questions or quests inspired by their culture and also define the heroic ideals of their culture and time period...read more
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9780786435418 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 1, 2008, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This book examines how epic poetry reflects cultural values, and how, in epic poems, the heroes must meet supernatural beings to find answers to essential questions.
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9780878755660 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, May 30, 2007, cover price $21.95
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9780878755653 | Whitston Pub Co Inc, January 30, 2006, cover price $19.95
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