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heroic narrative in the oral performance traditions of four continents

"Epic adventures" was published by Lit in 2004 - Münster, it has 197 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Epic adventures
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 197
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  • Publish Location: Münster

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"Epic adventures" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Hear! Hear! Epics are a booming business / Jan Jansen and Henk M.J. Maier
  • 2- The emergence of oral epics in Bantu-speaking Africa
  • 3- the Cameroon Littoral and Buhaya / Ralph A. Austen
  • 4- The birth of Jaka Tarub, a hero from northern Java / Clara Brakel-Papenhuyzen
  • 5- A School for epic? : the ecole William Ponty and the evolution of the Sunjata epic, 1913-c. 1960 / Stephen Bulman
  • 6- Theodoric rescues Sintram / Michael Curschmann
  • 7- The dynamics of the epic genre in Buryat culture / Roberte N. Hamayon
  • 8- Epic as arena : models of statehood and the Kyrgyz Manas epic / Nienke van der Heide
  • 9- The adventures of the "Epic of Samori" in 20th-century Mande oral tradition / Jan Jansen
  • 10- The narration of the Sunjata epic as a gendered activity / Marloes Janson
  • 11- The deification of South Asian epic heroes / Janet Kamphorst
  • 12- The sleeping giant : dynamics of a Bugis epic (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) / Sirtjo Koolhof
  • 13- An epik that never was an epic : the Malay Hikayat hang tuah / Henk M.J. Maier
  • 14- The narrative potential of the Mi'râj / Julian Millie
  • 15- Demise and reemergence of "Hikayat seri Rama" / Amin Sweeney
  • 16- The emergence of Blackfoot storytelling in educational programs / Lea Zuyderhoudt.

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