Sunjata: A New Prose Version

Sunjata: A New Prose Version
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Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9781624664960
ISBN-13 : 1624664962
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Download or read book Sunjata: A New Prose Version written by and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After existing orally for hundreds of years, Sunjata was written down in the 20th century. David Conrad, who recorded a new version of the epic, has now crafted a prose translation that preserves the oral flavor of live performance. The result is a captivating work of literature that will finally give the story of Sunjata its well-deserved place among the great epics of world literature." —Martin Puchner, Byron and Anita Wien Professor of Drama and of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University


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