000321573 000__ 01592cam\a2200349\a\4500 000321573 001__ 321573 000321573 005__ 20210513115900.0 000321573 008__ 011114s2002\\\\ctuab\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000321573 010__ $$a 2001058048 000321573 019__ $$a49738970$$a50665018 000321573 020__ $$a9780275976057 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000321573 020__ $$a027597605X (pbk. : alk. paper) 000321573 020__ $$a9780275976040 (alk. paper) 000321573 020__ $$a0275976041 (alk. paper) 000321573 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm48473940 000321573 035__ $$a321573 000321573 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dUKM$$dVFY$$dWSL$$dMUQ$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP 000321573 042__ $$apcc 000321573 049__ $$aISEA 000321573 05000 $$aPN56.E65$$bE666 2002 000321573 08200 $$a809/.132$$221 000321573 24504 $$aThe Epic voice /$$cedited by Alan D. Hodder and Robert E. Meagher. 000321573 260__ $$aWestport, Conn. :$$bPraeger,$$cc2002. 000321573 300__ $$a157 p. :$$bill, maps ;$$c23 cm. 000321573 440_0 $$aHampshire studies in the humanities 000321573 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000321573 5050_ $$aGilgamesh -- David -- Odyssey -- Ramayana -- Tán. 000321573 520__ $$aAll five of the epics discussed in this volume came to serve as the basis for an ethnic and national tradition of history, religion, and literature documenting, sometimes encyclopedically, the crucially formative events of a people's early collective experience. A sequential study of these stories will invite and provoke comparative questions and discussions of similar or parallel images, episodes, cultural values, narrative strategies, and poetic forms. 000321573 650_0 $$aEpic literature$$xHistory and criticism. 000321573 7001_ $$aHodder, Alan D. 000321573 7001_ $$aMeagher, Robert E. 000321573 85200 $$bgen$$hPN56.E65$$iE666$$i2002 000321573 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:321573$$pGLOBAL_SET 000321573 980__ $$aBIB 000321573 980__ $$aBOOK 000321573 994__ $$aC0$$bISE