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Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson and Bernardine Evaristo, Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Her book makes a critical intervention in the politics of literary form as she notes the way works by these authors disrupt and undermine the expectations attached to particular genres and literary traditions.

Literary form. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Epic literature --- History and criticism.

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This book offers a close survey of the changing audiences, modes of reading, and cultural expectations that shaped epic writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.According to Anthony Welch, the theory and practice of epic poetry in this period-including little-known attempts by many epic poets to have their work orally recited or set to music-must be understood in the context of Renaissance musical humanism. Welch's approach leads to a fresh perspective on a literary culture that stood on the brink of a new relationship with antiquity and on the history of music in the early modern era.

Epic poetry, European --- Epic literature, European --- European poetry --- European literature --- European epic literature --- European epic poetry --- History and criticism. --- Classical influences.

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This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.

German literature --- Politics and literature --- Epic literature, German --- History and criticism --- History --- Deutsch. --- Literatur. --- Macht. --- Politik. --- Epic literature, German. --- German literature. --- Politics and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte 1700-1800. --- 1700-1799. --- Germany. --- Epic literature, German -- History and criticism. --- German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. --- Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 18th century. --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- German epic literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Political aspects --- German literature - 18th century - History and criticism --- Politics and literature - Germany - History - 18th century --- Epic literature, German - History and criticism --- 18th-Century German Literature. --- C. Brentano. --- C.M. Wieland. --- Community. --- Epic. --- F.G. Klopstock. --- J.W. Goethe. --- Political Imaginary.

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This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities.

German literature --- Politics and literature --- Epic literature, German --- History and criticism --- History --- Deutsch. --- Epic literature, German. --- German literature. --- Literatur. --- Macht. --- Politics and literature. --- Politik. --- History and criticism. --- 1700-1799. --- Geschichte 1700-1800. --- Germany. --- 18th-Century German Literature. --- C. Brentano. --- C.M. Wieland. --- Community. --- Epic. --- F.G. Klopstock. --- J.W. Goethe. --- Political Imaginary.

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Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. 'Medieval Oral Literature', a volume in the 'De Gruyter Lexikon' series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama. Mittelalterliche Dichtung ist weitgehend der Mündlichkeit verpflichtet, nicht nur was den Vortrag und die Aufführung betrifft, sondern auch im Bezug auf die Überlieferung und das Dichten selbst. Obwohl in der mediävistischen Forschung Fragen der Mündlichkeit mittelalterlicher Dichtung viel diskutiert werden, fehlt es an einer übergreifenden, handbuchartigen Darstellung. Das De Gruyter-Lexikon ,Medieval Oral Literature' wurde von einem internationalen Team von 25 Wissenschaftlern geschrieben und bietet eine fundierte Diskussion theoretischer Ansätze sowie ausführliche Erörterungen einzelner literarischer Traditionen und Gattungen. Neben Kapiteln zur ,oral-formulaic theory', zur Mündlichkeit und Schriftlichkeit im frühen Mittelalter, zur performance und den Sängern/ Spielleuten, zur mündlichen Poetik und zu rituellen Aspekten der Mündlichkeit finden sich Kapitel zu altgermanischen, romanischen, mittelhochdeutschen, mittelenglischen, keltischen, griechisch-byzantinischen, russischen, hebräischen, arabischen, persischen und türkischen Traditionen mündlicher Dichtung. An Gattungen werden insbesondere Epik und Lyrik berücksichtigt, zum Teil in separaten Kapiteln, mit zusätzlichen Kapiteln zur Ballade und zum Drama.

Literature, Medieval --- Oral tradition in literature. --- Folk literature --- Epic literature --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Littérature populaire --- Littérature épique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Folklore --- History and criticism --- Littérature médiévale --- Tradition orale dans la littérature --- Littérature populaire --- Littérature épique --- --Littérature --- --Littérature orale --- Fiction --- anno 500-1499 --- Oral tradition in literature --- --Moyen âge, --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. --- Folk literature - History and criticism. --- Epic literature - History and criticism. --- Littérature --- Littérature orale --- Moyen âge, 476-1492 --- Medieval Literature, Oral epic, Orality, Performance.