Daredevils of Sasun : poetics of an epic /
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| Author / Creator: | Eghiazaryan, Azat. |
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| Uniform title: | "Sasna tsṛer" ēposi poetikan. English |
| Imprint: | Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers, 2008. |
| Description: | xiv, 254 p. : map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Armenian studies series ; no. 12 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7254627 |
Table of Contents:
- The epic and Armenian history
- The epic and myth
- Daredevils of Sasun and earlier Armenian folkloric traditions
- The epic's impact on modern Armenian literate culture
- Man and community
- The 'external' man
- Epic harmony
- The nature and significance of epic action
- The hero's spiritual world
- Evolution of the epic hero
- The epic adversary and negative hero
- Humor in the epic
- The history of the House of Sasun
- The Christian perspective on history and Daredevils of Sasun
- The heroes' childhood
- The characterization of Little Mher
- The epic world in time and space
- The land of Sasun, its natural setting, and socio-political structure
- Walnut rye and eglantine wheat
- Traces of epic world unity
- God, saints, and idols in the epic world
- The narrator and the audience
- Narrative clarity and dynamism
- Epic repetitions and recurring epithets
- The hero's speech.
