“No female weakness harbour’d there”: Epic Reframing of the Notorious Queen in Margaret Holford’s Margaret of Anjou: A Poem by Okaycan Dürükoğlu

“…By writing in a heroic mode and attributing epic characteristics to her poem, Margaret Holford transgresses the boundaries of the epic genre in which masculine ideals and goals are celebrated in general. …”
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The Evolution of the Meaning of the Word “Hamasah” until 1313 (Millennium of Ferdowsi) by Fatemeh Hemmasiyan Kashan, Shahram Azadian

“…In Persian, the term “Hamasah” denotes the epic genre. This equivalence has happened only recently. …”
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The Origin of Metonymical Combination (Derafshi Shodan/Kardan) Based on Ferdowsi's Shahnameh by Farideh Vejdani

“…It means that he can “abolish the conventional and everyday language and invent a new, private and personal, and in the final analysis, mysterious speech” (Eliade, 2003, p. 35).Ferdowsi's skill in utilizing the literary features of the epic genre and his mastery of the content of Shahnameh is evident in the way he states stories. …”
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Hikaya as a literary genre (based on A. Eniki's literary works of the 1940s–1960s) by V.R. Amineva

“…The analysis has been performed in order to identify the genre characteristics of hikaya as the non-canonical genre of Tatar Literature, which is not identical to the non-canonical small epic genres (e.g., stories) in Russian and European literature. …”
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