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The Persian Iskandar-nāma or Alexander romance is a collection of mostly legendary stories about Alexander the Great, whose core narrative goes back to a Greek account of his life and accomplishments, written between the third century BCE and the first century CE. In the Persian tradition, the work distinguishes itself from its Greek model in that Alexander is described as half-Persian and half-Greek, and also in that he is often identified with the prophet Dhu ʼl-Qarnayn mentioned in the Qurʾān, besides the introduction of all manner of local motifs and elements. There exist various versions of this romance in Persian, both in poetry and in prose, the oldest ones dating from the 4th/11th (Firdawsī, Shāh-nāma ) and 6th/12th (Ṭarsūsī, Dārāb-nāma ) centuries, respectively. The present work is one of seven chapters of a popular prose version in story-teller fashion dating from the Safavid era in which earlier, traditional themes are often overshadowed by elements introduced for entertainment.

Epic literature, Persian.

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"Professeur émérite à l'Université polytechnique Hauts-de-France (Valenciennes) en langue et littérature médiévales, Jean-Charles Herbin a formé de nombreux disciples et est reconnu internationalement comme un très grand spécialiste du cycle épique des Lorrains, dont il a mis en lumière la constitution progressive et édité de nombreux textes, soit en vers (Hervis de Més, la Vengeance Fromondin, Yonnet, Anseïs de Gascogne) soit en prose (ms. Arsenal 3346). Il a par ailleurs découvert et publié de nombreux fragments de textes médiévaux, dont un passage des Enfances Charlemagne jusque-là inconnu et qui a servi de modèle aux adaptations allemandes. Ses collègues de Valenciennes, mais aussi de nombreuses universités françaises et étrangères, lui offrent ici un recueil de cinquante-cinq articles consacrés au Hainaut médiéval et à la littérature épique, de même qu'à la littérature moderne et contemporaine, à la linguistique et à l'anthropologie."-- Page 4 of cover

Littérature française --- Histoire et critique --- French literature --- Epic literature, French --- History and criticism --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Epic literature, French - History and criticism

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"This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes' final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory."--

Epic literature, Spanish --- Epic literature, Spanish. --- Littérature épique espagnole --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de).

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"This collection of original essays presents new ways of looking at Cervantes' final novel. Persiles, a work that engages with geopolitical models of race, ethnicity, nation, and religion, takes its inspiration from the highly influential Ethiopian Story (the Aithiopika) of Heliodorus. With particular relevance to the period, the Persiles questions the issue of cultural pluralism in the Spanish empire and emphasizes the need to rethink the radically altered category of lo bárbaro/the barbarian (which included not only the Jew, the Muslim, and the Gypsy, but also the criollo, the mestizo, and the indiano), a new multiracial and multiethnic reality that posed a profound challenge to early modern Spain. The contributors offer a range of perspectives in spatial theory, psychology and subjectivity, visual culture, and literary theory."--

Literature --- Epic literature, Spanish --- Epic literature, Spanish. --- Littérature épique espagnole --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique. --- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, --- Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de). --- Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de) --- Cervantes. --- Don Quixote. --- Heliodorus. --- Persiles. --- Renaissance. --- ancient. --- early modern Spain. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- novel. --- romance.

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Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy-texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers-and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for the tradition of heroic poetry from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. As she traces the complex influences of classical and biblical texts on vernacular literature, Astell offers provocative readings of works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Malory, Milton, and many others. Astell looks at the relationship between the historical reception of the epic and successive imitative forms, showing how Boethius's Consolation and Johan biblical commentaries echo the allegorical treatment of" epic truth" in the poems of Homer and Virgil, and how in turn many works classified as "romance" take Job and Boethius as their models. She considers the influences of Job and Boethius on hagiographic romance, as exemplified by the stories of Eustace, Custance, and Griselda; on the amatory romances of Abelard and Heloise, Dante and Beatrice, and Troilus and Criseyde; and on the chivalric romances of Martin of Tours, Galahad, Lancelot, and Redcrosse. Finally, she explores an encyclopedic array of interpretations of Job and Boethius in Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.

Epic literature --- Imitation in literature. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary form --- Literature, Medieval --- Typology (Theology) in literature --- Quotation --- Literary style --- Mimesis in literature --- Originality in literature --- Plagiarism --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- History --- Classical influences --- Boethius, --- Bible. --- Biblia --- Bible --- Ayyūb (Book of the Old Testament) --- Giobbe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Hiob (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ijob (Book of the Old Testament) --- Iobus (Book of the Old Testament) --- Iov (Book of the Old Testament) --- Iyov (Book of the Old Testament) --- Iyyov (Book of the Old Testament) --- Job (Book of the Old Testament) --- Jobus (Book of the Old Testament) --- Livro de Jó --- Yop-ki (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- In literature. --- Typology (Theology) in literature. --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Imitation in literature --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval