{"product_id":"teaching-world-epics-9781603296182","title":"Teaching World Epics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEssays for teaching ancient and recent epic narratives from around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. \u003ci\u003eTeaching World Epics\u003c\/i\u003e addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUseful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women's studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics, national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume includes discussion of Ludovico Ariosto's \u003ci\u003eOrlando Furioso\u003c\/i\u003e, Giulia Bigolina's \u003ci\u003eUrania\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dede Korkut\u003c\/i\u003e, Luís Vaz de Camões's \u003ci\u003eOs Lusíadas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDavid of Sassoun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Askia Mohammed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Epic of Gilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, the epic of \u003ci\u003eSun-Jata\u003c\/i\u003e, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's \u003ci\u003eLa Araucana\u003c\/i\u003e, Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKalevala\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKebra Nagast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKudrun\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Legend of Poṉṉivaḷa Nadu\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManas\u003c\/i\u003e, John Milton's \u003ci\u003eParadise Lost\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMwindo\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNibelungenlied\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoema de mio Cid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePopol Wuj\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRamayana\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eShahnameh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSirat Bani Hilal\u003c\/i\u003e, Edmund Spenser's \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, Statius's \u003ci\u003eThebaid\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of the Heike\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Kingdoms\u003c\/i\u003e, Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's \u003ci\u003eHistoria de la Nueva México\u003c\/i\u003e, and Virgil's \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Language Association of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498258665746,"sku":"9781603296182","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e1e427c0-ce37-4b92-aa4d-c8f73db81760.jpg?v=1730729879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/teaching-world-epics-9781603296182","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}