The Oral epic, Reichl, Karl

Автор: Else Mundal; Jonas Wellendorf
Название: Oral Art Forms and their Passage into Writing
ISBN: 8763505045 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788763505048
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship between the oral and the written and the problems of textualisation. It sets out to explore the commonalities and differences in the process of literalisation.

Автор: Toohey, Peter
Название: Reading epic
ISBN: 0415555078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415555074
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This survey offers guidance through the major classical writers of epic to readers new to the subject: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and the interface between epic and the novel.

Автор: Vinci, Felice
Название: Baltic origins of homer`s epic tales
ISBN: 1594770522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781594770524
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Описание: Compelling evidence that the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey took place in the Baltic and not the Mediterranean
- Reveals how a climate change forced the migration of a people and their myth to ancient Greece
- Identifies the true geographic sites of Troy and Ithaca in the Baltic Sea and Calypso's Isle in the North Atlantic Ocean
For years scholars have debated the incongruities in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, given that his descriptions are at odds with the geography of the areas he purportedly describes. Inspired by Plutarch's remark that Calypso's Isle was only five days sailing from Britain, Felice Vinci convincingly argues that Homer's epic tales originated not in the Mediterranean, but in the northern Baltic Sea.
Using meticulous geographical analysis, Vinci shows that many Homeric places, such as Troy and Ithaca, can still be identified in the geographic landscape of the Baltic. He explains how the dense, foggy weather described by Ulysses befits northern not Mediterranean climes, and how battles lasting through the night would easily have been possible in the long days of the Baltic summer. Vinci's meteorological analysis reveals how a decline of the "climatic optimum" caused the blond seafarers to migrate south to warmer climates, where they rebuilt their original world in the Mediterranean. Through many generations the memory of the heroic age and the feats performed by their ancestors in their lost homeland was preserved and handed down to the following ages, only later to be codified by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Felice Vinci offers a key to open many doors that allow us to consider the age-old question of the Indo-European diaspora and the origin of the Greek civilization from a new perspective.

Автор: Kibler William W., Palmer R. Barton Prof.
Название: Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance: Eight New Translations
ISBN: 0786447796 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786447794
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages. Encompassing such key works such as Lawman's Brut and Wace's Romance of Brut, written in Middle English and Old French, respectively, the Arthurian Epic Tradition depends on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, written in Latin. Many modern readers are more familiar with Arthur and his fabled court as the centerpiece of a massive fictional tradition, well represented in the second part of this volume, including Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, The Quest of the Holy Grail, and the Perlesvaus. These selections emphasize the connection between secular and religious understandings of chivalry that is the most distinctive quality of medieval Arthurian romance. Useful as a classroom text, the volume provides material for a semester's worth of study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.