University of Toronto Press, 2023. — 200 p. Emerging from a richly diverse oral narrative tradition circa 1300, the heroic and dynamic tale of the young Cid eclipses the uninspired, matter-of-fact narration of the reign of Fernando I into which it is incorporated. In its analysis of the Mocedades de Rodrigo , the epic poem of Cid’s youth, Speaking Truth to Power identifies the...
Routledge, 2022. — 602 p. This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes, taking instead a transversal perspective on the Arthurian narrative. Together, its thirty-four chapters explore the continuities that make the material recognizable from one century to another, as well as...
Lawson Gartner Publishing, 2017. — 278 p. Literature tells us painfully little about Guinevere, mostly focusing on her sin and betrayal of Arthur and Camelot. As a result, she is often seen as a one-dimensional character. But there is more to her story. By examining popular works of more than 20 authors over the last one thousand years, The Once and Future Queen shows how...
SUNY Press, 2021. — 462 p. ― (SUNY series in Hindu Studies). ― ISBN 978-1438482415, 978-1438482422. A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies. Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit...
John Murray Publishing, 2019. — 336 p. Journeying from Turkey to Iceland, award-winning travel writer Nicholas Jubber takes us on a fascinating adventure through our continent's most enduring epic poems to learn how they were shaped by their times, and how they have since shaped us. The great European epics were all inspired by moments of seismic change: The Odyssey tells of the...
Translated by Kaveh L. Hemmat. — University of California Press, 2022. — 432 p. The first English translation of a strange and unusual Persian epic, this action-packed tale of an evil, monstrous king explores questions of nature and nurture and brings the global middle ages to life. The great Persian epic known as the Kushnameh follows the entangled lives of Kush the Tusked - a...
Routledge, 2024. — 660 p. 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...
Inner Traditions, 2003. — 208 p. Restores Gawain of Camelot to his true role as the foremost representative and servant of the Goddess. - The full story of Gawain of Camelot that restores a lost piece of the great Arthurian tapestry. - Traces the historical trends that demoted Gawain from the foremost knight of the Round Table to a villain and womanizer. - The result of more...
Ленинград: Наука, Ленинградское отделение издательства, 1974. — 727 с. Академик Виктор Максимович Жирмунский занимался буквально всеми разделами современной филологии - литературоведением, фольклористикой, стиховедением, языкознанием. В.М.Жирмунскому удалось сделать ряд конкретных открытий в истории изучения эпоса тюркских народов и представить общую жанровую типологию...
М.: Менеджер, 2007. — 491 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8346-0326-9. На протяжении поколений большинство ученых считало, что легенды о короле Артуре, рыцарях Круглого Стола и Святом Граале берут свое начало в древних кельтских источниках. Однако американские исследователи К. Скотт Литлтон и Линда А. Малкор пришли к выводу, что начало артуровской традиции было положено во II в. в Британии и...
Пер. с англ. В. Трейстер под ред. Д.А, Функа. — М. : Восточная литература, 2008. — 383 с. — (Исследования по фольклору и мифологии Востока). — ISBN 978-5-02-036358-8. Книга представляет собой введение в изучение устного эпоса тюркских народов, Она базируется не только на опубликованных и архивных текстах, записанных различными исследователями в XIX-XX вв., но и на богатейших...
Казань: ИЯЛИ им.Г.Ибрагимова АН РТ, 2015. — 448 с. — ISBN: 978-5-93091-181-7. В монографии рассматриваются основные сюжеты, мотивы и изобразительно-выразительные средства тюркского народного героического эпоса. Для обеспечения полноты картины привлекаются и сказания более позднего порядка - лиро-эпические дастаны и дастаны книжного происхождения. Изучение тюркского народного...
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