Search Results for epic poetry

... by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017 Modern readers might tend to recoil from epic poetry because they consider the form archaic. Similarly, they favor those chronicles of the New World conquests whose manner of relating events more closely approximates modern prose (with Bernal Díaz, for instance...

... examines three sugidanon epics alongside two Hiligaynon-language Catholic devotional poems written by Spanish missionaries. These writers appropriated selectively from Panayanon poetry forms, idioms, and gender categories to create a new Christianized Visayan model woman with comparatively lower prestige...

... and the Serbo-Croatian epic. Parry and Lord com- pared the features of the contemporary epic tradition to those of Homeric verse, and concluded that the Homeric epics were originally oral compo- sitions that had been set down in writing (Lord 1960). Subsequently, this work gave rise to three related...

... and reimagined as a theme for epic poetry, painting, opera, novels, children’s books, and works of history—heavily filtered through contemporary prejudices and often with contemporary events in mind, from Napoleon’s invasion of Spain to the US invasion of Mexico. 20 The European defeat of Native America...

... and singers perform nonliturgical music. (Mostly men 640 Susan Rasmussen perform the modern guitar music, although some women compose some of its songs.) In the marabouts’ view, noble men should sing only traditional battle epics or liturgical songs...

...Margaret Jolly This paper situates the fraught relation of nationalisms and feminisms in the context of wider debates about globalization in the Pacific. Through a reading of the poetry and prose of the late Grace Mera Molisa of Vanuatu and Haunani-Kay Trask of Hawai`i, it raises questions about...

...” in the couplet. Tedlock ( 1996 : 63), working with K’iche’ elder Andrés Xiloj, indents the names, representing them as reported speech that is similar to poetry, although contained within a larger prose structure. The PTV does not privilege any of these typographic presentations or textual interpretations...

... into the Colonial Period (Chuchiak 2004, 2010; Vail 2015, this issue). Speech and Script in Colonial Semantic Ideologies During their famous research among South Slavic epic singers in the 1930s (Lord 2000 [1960 Milman Parry and Albert Lord asked these singers what a “word” (reč) was in oral poetry...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

... thinning of culture, and he even says that the best people of a civilization, the ones, that is, who are most committed to its values, are the ones least equipped to survive cultural upheaval. Still, as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

... thinning of culture, and he even says that the best people of a civilization, the ones, that is, who are most committed to its values, are the ones least equipped to survive cultural upheaval. Still, as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

... thinning of culture, and he even says that the best people of a civilization, the ones, that is, who are most committed to its values, are the ones least equipped to survive cultural upheaval. Still, as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked...

... thinning of culture, and he even says that the best people of a civilization, the ones, that is, who are most committed to its values, are the ones least equipped to survive cultural upheaval. Still, as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked...

..., as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked on a project of recovery after surrender to nothingness. Lear’s dialectical habit of thought is attracted to this histori- cal feat. Courage may at first seem comprehensible only in the context of a way...

... thinning of culture, and he even says that the best people of a civilization, the ones, that is, who are most committed to its values, are the ones least equipped to survive cultural upheaval. Still, as an epic wayfarer pursues enlightenment only after a descent to hell, Plenty Coups embarked...