...Karen Emmerich Standard texts for many ancient works were established long ago, but The Epic of Gilgamesh is an exception to that rule. Only in the mid-nineteenth century did stories of this ancient king resurface, thanks to pioneering Assyriologists whose project of recovery and decipherment...

...KEITH DICKSON University of Oregon 2007 Abusch, Tzvi. “The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 121 . 4 ( 2001 ): 614 -22. ____. “Gilgamesh's Request and Siduri's Denial. (Part I).” The Tablet...

... . “Epic, Novel.” The Novel: Volume 2: Forms and Themes . Ed. Moretti Franco . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2006 . 32 – 63 . Print . George A.R. “The Epic of Gilgamesh.” The Cambridge Companion to the Epic . Ed. Bates Catharine . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2010 . Print...

... the figure of a “planetary” conception of Comparative Literature that would conserve “the irreducible hybridity of all languages” (9). If you want to teach Gilgamesh, Spivak’s book seemed to say, you’d better learn Sumerian. More pressing, perhaps: if you want to teach Mahfouz, you’d better learn Arabic...

... is a literature and thought of the shore, as “a natural border” and a “meaningful space” through which “the coast offers itself as a line that organizes patterns of thought” (91). Traceable well beyond the Greek world (“from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Melville’s maritime parables and beyond,” as well...

..., the sea becomes a site of remembrance, reminding the poet of the Iliad and the Golden Fleece, of Gilgamesh and Guinea. Having met Omeros, who appears as the poem’s blind fisherman, Seven Seas, the narrator attempts to reconcile his earlier questioning. 2 The passage below places the response...

... to my own reflections here, deals withThe Epic of Gilgamesh, found inscribed on ancient cuneiform tablets when Austen Henry Layard and his assistant Hormuzd Rassam uncovered the ancient Assyrian ruins of Nini­veh starting in the mid-1840s. The second reason for beginning with Schiller...

... on the translator to eschew his own poetic personality and vigorously preserve the original’s formal features, down to the number of stanzas and lines and the character of rhyme and meter. Gumilev practiced what he preached on many occasions—while translating the Babylonian epic Gilgamesh, for example...

... in the preceding pages, you would not teach a Bhagat novel as a representative “Indian” text in a world literature class, following the likes of The Odyssey , The Epic of Gilgamesh , Shakespeare, and Proust, in English and English translation. You would not, for the same reason that the DU faculty balked...

... texts are, on some level, rewritings. Karen Emmerich, citing the complex translation histories of works like A Thousand and One Nights and the Epic of Gilgamesh , argues that the basic instability of all texts is sufficient to make the notion of a stable original absurd; translation, she suggests...