附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Epic as genre / Gregory Nagy -- Performing interpretation : early allegorical exegesis of Homer / Andrew Ford -- The Arab epic poet as outcast, trickster, and con man / Susan Slyomovics -- Epic, gender, and nationalism : the development of nineteenth-century Balkan literature / Margaret Beissinger -- Metamorphosis, metaphor, and allegory in Latin epic / Philip Hardie -- Tasso's trees : epic and local culture / Jane Tylus -- Appropriating the epic : gender, caste, and regional identity in Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Problematic performances : overlapping genres and levels of participation in Arabic oral epic singing / Dwight F. Reynolds -- Worshipping epic villains : a Kaurava cult in the Central Himalayas / William S. Sax -- The natural tears of epic / Thomas M. Greene -- The poetics of loss in Greek epic / Sheila Murnaghan -- The role of lament in the growth and death of Roman epic / Elaine Fantham -- Epic and the politics of the origin tale : Virgil, Ovid, Spenser, and Native American aetiology / Susanne L. Wofford -- Walcott's Omeros : the classical epic in a post-modern world / Joseph Farrell.
