Epic Tradition

Bibliography on Epic

Orality and Literacy

Beissinger, Margaret H., Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford. 1999. Eds., Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Harris, William V. 1989. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Momaday, N. Scott. "The Native Voice." In Emory Elliott, ed. The Columbia Literary History of the United States. Columbia University Press, 1988. 5-15.

Thomas, Rosalind. Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece. Cambridge, 1992.

Homer's Odyssey

De Vet, Thérčse. 1996. "The Joint Role of Orality and Literacy in the Composition, Transmission, and Performance of the Homeric Texts: A Comparative View." Transactions of the American Philological Association, 126 (1996): 43-76.

Edwards, Mark W. 1986. "Homer and Oral Tradition: The Formula, Part I." Oral Tradition, 1: 171-230.

          . 1988. "Homer and Oral Tradition: The Formula, Part II." Oral Tradition, 3: 11-60.

          . 1992. "Homer and Oral Tradition: The Type-Scene." Oral Tradition, 7: 284-330.

Foley, John Miles. 1999. Homer's Traditional Art. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Martin, Richard P. 1989. The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Nagy, Gregory. 1996. Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parks, Ward. 1990. Verbal Dueling in Heroic Narrative: The Homeric and Old English Traditions. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Parry, Milman. 1971. The Making of Homeric Verse: The Collected Papers of Milman Parry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Rpt. 1987.

Derek Walcott, The Odyssey

Farrell, Joseph. 1999. In Beissinger, Margaret H., Jane Tylus, and Susanne Lindgren Wofford, eds., Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Gooch, Matt. "Derek Walcott's The Odyssey: A Stage Version." Washington and Lee University, 2001.

Hamner, Robert D. "Creolizing Homer for the Stage: Walcott's The Odyssey." Twentieth Century Literature 47.3 (2001) 374-90.

Hofmeister, Timothy, ed. 1999. "From Homer to Omeros: Derek Walcott's Omeros and Odyssey." Special Issue of Classical World 93.1.

Martyniuk, Irene. "Playing with Europe: Derek Walcott's Retelling of Homer's Odyssey." Callaloo 28.1 (2005) 188-99.

Vergil's Aeneid

Evans, J.A. 2003. "'Self' and 'Other': The Ideology of Assimilation in Vergil's Aeneid." Scholia 12: 45-59.

Feeney, Denis. 1991. The Gods in Epic. Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. New York: Oxford university Press.

Fowler, Don. 1997. "Virgilian Narrative: Story-telling." In Charles Martindale, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. Cambridge University Press. 259-70.

Harrison, S. J., ed. 1990. Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid. Oxford.

Keith, A.M. 2000. Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic. Cambridge.

Laird, Andrew. 2003. "Roman epic theatre? Reception, performance and the poet in Virgil's Aeneid." Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 49: 19-39.

McManus, Barbara. 1997. "Transgendered Moments. Revisiting Vergil's Aeneid." In Classics and Feminism: Gendering the Classics. Twayne. 91-118.

Perkell, Christine, ed. 1999. Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide. Oklahoma.

Quint, David. 1993. "Repetition and Ideology in the Aeneid." In Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton. Princeton University Press. 50-96.

Sale, Merritt. 1999. "Virgil's Formularity and Pius Aeneas." In Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and its Influence in the Greek and Roman World, ed. E. A. Mackay. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 199-220.

The Song of Roland

Sunjata Epic

Austen, Ralph A., ed. 1999. In search of Sunjata: The Mande oral epic as history, literature, and performance. Blommington: Indiana University Press.

Belcher, Stephen. 1999. "Sunjata and the Traditions of the Manden." Epic Traditions of Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 89-114.

Haring, Lee. 1994. Ed., African Oral Traditions. A special issue of Oral Tradition, 9, i.

Johnson, John William. 2003. Trans., The Epic of Son-Jara: A West African Tradition. Text by Fa-Digi Sisňkň. 3rd ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Orig. ed. 1986.

Okpewho, Isidore. 1992. African Oral Literature: Backgrounds, Character, Continuity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.