http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#epics <ul>Recommended (examples): <li>Norman Cohn (trans.), <cite>Gold Khan</cite> <li>Vladimir Nabokov (trans.), <cite>The Song of Igor's Campaign</cite> </ul> <ul>Recommended (about): <li>Albert Lord, <cite>The Singer of Tales</cite> <li>Franco Moretti, <cite>The Modern Epic</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Margaret Beissinger, Jane Tylus, and Susanne Wofford (eds.), <cite>Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World: The Poetics of Community</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft40000565/">Free online</a>] <li>C. M. Bowra, <cite>Heroic Poetry</cite> <li>Steven C. Caton, <cite>``Peaks of Yemen I Summon'': Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe</cite> <li>John Colarusso, <citE>Nart Sagas from the Caucauses: Myths and Legends from the Circassians, Abazas, Abkhaz, and Ubykhs</cite> <li>John Miles Foley, <cite>Traditional Oral Epic: The </cite>Odyssey<cite>, </cite>Beowulf<cite>, and the Serbo-Croatian Return Song</cite> [<a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2m3nb18b/">Free online</a>] <li>A. Bartlett Giamatti, <cite>The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic</cite> <li>Gisli Sgurdsson, <cite>The Medieval Icelandic Saga and Oral Tradition: A Discourse on Method</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SIGMED.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Havelock, <cite>Preface to Plato</cite> <li>Guida M. Jackson, <cite>Traditional Epics: A Literary Companion</cite> <li><cite>Kalevala</cite> <li>Albert Lord, <cite>Epic Singers and the Oral Tradition</cite> <li>Dean A. Miller, <cite>The Epic Hero</cite> <li>Donald L. Philippi, <cite>Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the <a href="ainu.html">Ainu</a></cite> <li>Karl Reichl, <cite>Singing the Past: Turkic and Medieval Heroic Poetry</cite> [<a href="http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornellpress/cup3_catalog.taf?_function=detail&Title_ID=3372&_UserReference=6D4EA289C2CF9D61BC442EFF">Blurb</a>] <li>Calvert Watkins, <cite>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</cite> </ul>