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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 The Story • The Text • The Rediscovery • The Early Translations 1. The Initial Reception (1884–1935) 20 The First Literarization • Babel and Bible • The German Connection • The Spread of the Epic 2. Representative Beginnings (1941–1958) 47 Modes of Modernization • Four Poets in English • Four German Initiatives • A Major German Thematization • The First Musical Settings 3. The Popularization of Gilgamesh (1959–1978) 79 Poetic Adaptations • The First Fictionalization • The Gay Gilgamesh • Gilgamesh and the Philosophers • A Comic viii Contents Interlude • Three American Fictional Exuberances • The Operatic Gilgamesh 4. The Contemporization of Gilgamesh (1979–1999) 109 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) 154 Poetic Versions in English and French • A New Focus • Gilgamesh as Ritual Drama • Two Fictional Re-Visions • The Politicization of Gilgamesh Conclusion 189 Chronology 199 Notes 207 Index 221 ...