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Traditional Elegy
'Traditional Elegy' explores several issues related to the traditional compositional techniques that lay behind archaic Greek elegy.
Traditional Elegy
The Homeric poems have, for almost a century now, been considered as fossilised products of an oral tradition, retaining traces of their formulae and compositional techniques that show this. R. Scott Garner takes this approach and applies it to archaic Greek elegy.
A Companion to Ancient Epic
A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek and Roman epic. It offers a multi-disciplinary discussion of both longstanding ideas and newer perspectives. A Companion to the Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic traditions Considers the interrelation between these different traditions Provides a balanced overview of longstanding ideas and newer perspectives in the study of epic Shows how scholarship over the last forty years has transformed the ways that we conceive of and understand the genre Covers recently introduced topics, such as the role of women, the history of reception, and comparison with living analogues from oral tradition The editor and contributors are leading scholars in the field Includes a detailed index of poems, poets, technical terms, and important figures and events
Epistolary Acts
In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity.
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