2014, ISBN: 0815633556

[EAN: 9780815633556], Neubuch, [PU: Syracuse University Press, New York], Hardcover. Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surp… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780815633556], Neubuch, [PU: Syracuse University Press, New York], Hardcover. Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale. These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious ""epicizing"" of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp. Provides English translations of the most important verse epics in Old and Middle Yiddish Literature (1382-1594). The texts are introduced and contextualized by a comprehensive critical essay. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability., Books<

2014, ISBN: 9780815633556

Buch, Hardcover, Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprise… Mehr…

Buch, Hardcover, Unlike most other ancient European, Near Eastern, and Mediterranean civilizations, Jewish culture surprisingly developed no early epic tradition: while the Bible comprises a broad range of literary genres, epic is not among them. Not until the late medieval period, beginning in the fourteenth century, did an extensive and thriving epic tradition emerge in Yiddish. Among the few dozen extant early epics, there are several masterpieces, of which ten are translated into English in this volume. Divided between the religious and the secular, the book includes eight epics presented in their entirety, an illustrative excerpt from another epic, and a brief heroic prose tale. These texts have been chosen as the best and the most interesting representatives of the genre in terms of cultural history and literary quality: the pious ""epicizing"" of biblical narrative, the swashbuckling medieval courtly epic, Arthurian romance, heroic vignettes, intellectual high art, and popular camp. [PU: Syracuse University Press], Seiten: 520, Syracuse University Press, 2014<

ISBN: 9780815633556

Hardback, [PU: Syracuse University Press], Provides English translations of the most important verse epics in Old and Middle Yiddish Literature (1382-1594). The texts are introduced and c… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: Syracuse University Press], Provides English translations of the most important verse epics in Old and Middle Yiddish Literature (1382-1594). The texts are introduced and contextualized by a comprehensive critical essay., Poetry Anthologies (various Poets)<

2014, ISBN: 9780815633556

Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Syracuse University Press], Syracuse University Press, 2014