The Epic of Gilgamesh
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (635 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609807936 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorKENT H. Kevin has done cover art for small presses in Chapel Hill NC; run comic series in local newspapers; hosted 'underground' talk radio shows; and contributed the cover to the first volume of The Graphic Canon, an Oliver Twist for the second volume, and a Brothers Grimm tale for The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature. . Kevin lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and their three cats. DIXON is primarily a prose writer, but has published in all genres, including poetry and screenwriting. from University of Iowa--the Writers' Workshop. His fiction and nonfiction has been published in Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, The American Prospect, among others. Kent was educated at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University
The reader is slowed down by the artwork and visual jokes and the artist's wry hat-tippings to various masters (Crumb and Gilbert Shelton alongside Schultz and Capp, Popeye and Krazy Kat, Uderzo's Astérix and Hergé's Tintin), and then, once the reading pace has shifted into lower gear, having all these aspects complementarily drawn out, makes for an especially satisfying counterpoint to the low-key, the wise and cynical and morally sophisticated, and sometimes sublimely Olympian humor.. The most complete Gilgamesh in translation--including the new discoveries from tablet V.THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the Uhr epic--the hero's journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found t
KENT H. Kent was educated at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. Recent translations include Mallarmé's L'Après-Midi d'un Faun and Rilke's "Leichen-Wäsche." In collaboration with Japanese students, he has translated previously unpublished hibakusha (A-bomb survivor poetry), in American Poetry Rev