The Epic World

preview-18
  • The Epic World Book Detail

  • Author : Pamela Lothspeich
  • Release Date : 2024-01-30
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 661
  • ISBN 13 : 1000912167
  • File Size : 13,13 MB

The Epic World by Pamela Lothspeich PDF Summary

Book Description: Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own The Epic World books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

The Epic World

The Epic World

File Size : 36,36 MB
Total View : 8250 Views
DOWNLOAD

Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the huma

Chinese Folklore Studies Today

Chinese Folklore Studies Today

File Size : 9,9 MB
Total View : 8699 Views
DOWNLOAD

Chinese folklorists are well acquainted with the work of their English-language colleagues, but until recently the same could not be said about American scholar

Epic

Epic

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 8855 Views
DOWNLOAD

Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary epic and pointing towards the future, this volume discusses: a wide range

Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond

Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond

File Size : 29,29 MB
Total View : 1113 Views
DOWNLOAD

This volume is the masterpiece of Chao Gejin, one of the best-known Chinese scholars of Epic studies, representing his most influential works on the change of t

Homer’s Traditional Art

Homer’s Traditional Art

File Size : 79,79 MB
Total View : 9975 Views
DOWNLOAD

In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral tra