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Tables of Contents for Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
INTRODUCTION
1
18
Margaret Beissinger
Jane Tylus
Susanne Wofford
SECTION ONE ON THE MARGINS OF THE SCRIBAL: FROM ORAL EPIC TO TEXT
19
68
1. Epic as Genre
21
12
Gregory Nagy
2. Performing Interpretation: Early Allegorical Exegesis of Homer
33
21
Andrew Ford
3. The Arab Epic Poet as Outcast, Trickster, and Con Man
54
15
Susan Slyomovics
4. Epic, Gender, and Nationalism: The Development of Nineteenth-Century Balkan Literature
69
18
Margaret Beissinger
SECTION TWO EPIC AND AUTHORITY
87
66
5. Metamorphosis, Metaphor, and Allegory in Latin Epic
89
19
Philip Hardie
6. Tasso's Trees: Epic and Local Culture
108
23
Jane Tylus
7. Appropriating the Epic: Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India
131
22
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
SECTION THREE THE BOUNDARIES OF EPIC PERFORMANCE
153
34
8. Problematic Performances: Overlapping Genres and Levels of Participation in Arabic Oral Epic-Singing
155
14
Dwight F. Reynolds
9. Worshiping Epic Villains: A Kaurava Cult in the Central Himalayas
169
18
William S. Sax
SECTION FOUR EPIC AND LAMENT
187
50
10. The Natural Tears of Epic
189
14
Thomas M. Greene
11. The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic
203
18
Sheila Murnaghan
12. The Role of Lament in the Growth and Death of Roman Epic
221
16
Elaine Fantham
SECTION FIVE EPIC AND PEDAGOGY
237
64
13. Epics and the Politics of the Origin Tale: Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American Aetiology
239
31
Susanne L. Wofford
14. Walcott's Omeros: The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World
270
31
Joseph Farrell
INDEX
301