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Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Story
The Text
The Rediscovery
The Early Translations
1. The Initial Reception (1884–1935)
The First Literarization
Babel and Bible
The German Connection
The Spread of the Epic
2. Representative Beginnings (1941–1958)
Modes of Modernization
Four Poets in English
Four German Initiatives
A Major German Thematization
The First Musical Settings
3. The Popularization of Gilgamesh
Poetic Adaptations
The First Fictionalization
The Gay Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh and the Philosophers
A Comic
Three American Fictional Exuberances
The Operatic Gilgamesh
4. The Contemporization of Gilgamesh (1979–1999)
New Contexts
Gilgamesh Psychoanalyzed
Gilgamesh Deconstructed
Gilgamesh Historicized
Gilgamesh Drums for the Greens
Gilgamesh Postfigured
Gilgamesh Personalized
Gilgamesh Hispanicized
Gilgameshiana
Gilgamesh at Millennium’s End
5. Gilgamesh in the Twenty-First Century (2000–2009)
Poetic Versions in English and French
A New Focus
Gilgamesh as Ritual Drama
Two Fictional Re-Visions
The Politicization of Gilgamesh
Conclusion
Chronology [of works discussed]
Notes
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