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Cultures across the globe have embraced epics: stories of memorable deeds by heroic characters whose actions have significant consequences for their lives and their communities. Incorporating narrative elements also found in sacred history, chronicle, saga, legend, romance, myth, folklore, and the novel, epics throughout history have both animated the imagination and encouraged reflection on what it means to be human. Teaching World Epics addresses ancient and more recent epic works from Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica, and East, Central, and South Asia that are available in English translations. Useful to instructors of literature, peace and conflict studies, transnational studies, women’s studies, and religious studies, the essays in this volume focus on epics in sociopolitical and cultural contexts, on the adaptation and reception of epic works, and on themes that are especially relevant today, such as gender dynamics and politics, national identity, colonialism and imperialism, violence, and war.

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Epic literature, French --- Epic literature, Italian

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Uma epopeia portuguesa setecentista inédita, mas não ignorada, em décimas bem ritmadas, cujo autor, Isaac Samuda, é um dos judeus de talento que o fantasma da Inquisição chegou a aprisionar por um tempo e ameaçava persegui-lo de novo, pelo que teve de emigrar, é o livro que temos o gosto de aqui apresentar.

A obra era inédita, conforme dissemos, mas não se desconhecia a sua existência, porquanto várias publicações, entre as quais o Dicionário de Inocêncio, haviam falado dela. Tão-pouco o era a figura do seu herói, tantas vezes enaltecida ao longo dos séculos, nomeadamente na célebre epopeia de Brás Garcia Mascarenhas, Viriato Trágico, que é anterior a esta.

Do autor das Viríadas, Isaac Samuda, também se conheciam dados significativos, para além dos já mencionados: bacharel em Artes, estuda Medicina na Universidade de Coimbra, e, devido

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Epic literature. --- Literature