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Description:The many adventures of the "epic" in modern times are fascinating topics in themselves. The Romantics claimed that every self-respecting nation should, at some time, have had one and they set out to reconstruct these epics for political as well as cultural reasons. Such epics represented earlier stages in the development of nation-states and in this modern world they were, for a long time, hard to appreciate. The introduction of tape recorders, however, brought the epic back in the limelight. It became fashionable for scholars to record long oral narratives, and to present them as long written poems that reflected deeply ingrained ideas. Because of this technology, the idea of the epic was revitalized. This volume presents critical analyses of epics in Sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, South-East Asia, Medieval Europe, and America and discusses the process of revitalization, sometimes even invention, of epics in particular historical, political, and academic contexts. Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Henk M.J. Maier is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania of the University of Leiden, Netherlands.Contents:Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier --The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa--the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen --The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen --A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman --Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann --The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon --Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide --The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen --The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson --The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst --The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof --An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier --The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie --Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney --The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Epic Adventures: Heroic Narrative in the Oral Performance Traditions of Four Continents. To get started finding Epic Adventures: Heroic Narrative in the Oral Performance Traditions of Four Continents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The many adventures of the "epic" in modern times are fascinating topics in themselves. The Romantics claimed that every self-respecting nation should, at some time, have had one and they set out to reconstruct these epics for political as well as cultural reasons. Such epics represented earlier stages in the development of nation-states and in this modern world they were, for a long time, hard to appreciate. The introduction of tape recorders, however, brought the epic back in the limelight. It became fashionable for scholars to record long oral narratives, and to present them as long written poems that reflected deeply ingrained ideas. Because of this technology, the idea of the epic was revitalized. This volume presents critical analyses of epics in Sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, South-East Asia, Medieval Europe, and America and discusses the process of revitalization, sometimes even invention, of epics in particular historical, political, and academic contexts. Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Henk M.J. Maier is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania of the University of Leiden, Netherlands.Contents:Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier --The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa--the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen --The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen --A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman --Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann --The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon --Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide --The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen --The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson --The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst --The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof --An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier --The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie --Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney --The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Epic Adventures: Heroic Narrative in the Oral Performance Traditions of Four Continents. To get started finding Epic Adventures: Heroic Narrative in the Oral Performance Traditions of Four Continents, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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