TY - BOOK N2 - All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these stories will invite and provoke comparative questions and discussions of similar or parallel images, episodes, cultural values, narrative strategies, and poetic forms. AB - All five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these stories will invite and provoke comparative questions and discussions of similar or parallel images, episodes, cultural values, narrative strategies, and poetic forms. T1 - The Epic voice / DA - c2002. CY - Westport, Conn. : AU - Hodder, Alan D. AU - Meagher, Robert E. CN - PN56.E65 CN - PN56.E65 PB - Praeger, PP - Westport, Conn. : PY - c2002. ID - 321573 KW - Epic literature SN - 9780275976057 (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 027597605X (pbk. : alk. paper) SN - 9780275976040 (alk. paper) SN - 0275976041 (alk. paper) TI - The Epic voice / ER -