Epics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics

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2

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2011

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9781414476216

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Overview

Epics for Students, 2nd ed. is designed to provide students and other researchers with a guide to understanding and enjoying the epic literature that is most commonly studied in classrooms. This set includes the 27 entries from Epics for Students volumes 1 and 2, updated with new research, criticism, and images where available.
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This set includes the 27 entries from Epics for Students volumes 1 and 2.
What's New

Each entry includes an introductory essay
Table of Contents.
VOLUME 1.
GUEST FOREWORD (by Helen Conrad-O'Briain).
INTRODUCTION.
Literary Chronology.
Acknowledgments.
Contributors.
AENEID (by Virgil).
BEOWULF(Anonymous).
THE CANTOS (by Ezra Pound).
EL CID (Anonymous).
DIVINE COMEDY (by Dante Alighieri).
EPIC OF GILGAMESH (Anonymous).
THE FAERIE QUEENE (by Edmund Spenser).
GERUSALEMME LIBERATA (by Torquato Tasso).
ILIAD (by Homer).
KALEVALA (by Elias Lo nnrot).
THE LORD OF THE RINGS (by J.R.R. Tolkien).
MAHABHARATA (Anonymous, attributed to Vyasa).
LES MISE RABLES (by Victor Hugo).
VOLUME 2.
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR (by Thomas Malory).
NIBELUNGENLIED (Anonymous).
ODYSSEY (by Homer).
OMEROS (by Derek Walcott).
ON THE NATURE OF THINGS (by Titus Lucretius Carus).
PARADISE LOST (by John Milton).
PHARSALIA (by Marcus Annaeus Lucan).
POETIC EDDA (Anonymous).
THE SONG OF IGOR'S CAMPAIGN (Anonymous).
SONG OF ROLAND (Anonymous).
SUNDIATA (by Djeli Mamoudou Kouyate ).
TA IN BO CU AILNGE (Anonymous).
THE TALE OF GENJI (by Lady Murasaki Shikibu).
WAR AND PEACE (by Leo Tolstoy).
Glossary of Literary.
Terms.
Author/Title Index.
Nationality/Ethnicity Index.
Subject/Theme Index.
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Epics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context & Criticism on Commonly Studied Epics

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