Epic and Romance. W. P. Ker

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       W. P. Ker

      Epic and Romance

      Essays on Medieval Literature

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664627735

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       POSTSCRIPT

       INTRODUCTION

       I

       The Heroic Age

       II

       Epic and Romance

       III

       Romantic Mythology

       IV

       The Three Schools—Teutonic Epic—French Epic—The Icelandic Histories

       THE TEUTONIC EPIC

       I

       The Tragic Conception

       II

       Scale of the Poems

       III

       Epic and Ballad Poetry

       IV

       The Style of the Poems

       V

       The Progress of Epic

       VI

       Beowulf

       THE ICELANDIC SAGAS

       I

       Iceland and the Heroic Age

       II

       Matter and Form

       III

       The Heroic Ideal

       IV

       Tragic Imagination

       V

       Comedy

       VI

       The Art of Narrative

       VII

       Epic and History

       VIII

       The Northern Prose Romances

       CHAPTER IV

       THE OLD FRENCH EPIC

       (Chansons de Geste)

       CHAPTER V

       ROMANCE AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS

       APPENDIX

       CHAPTER I

       INTRODUCTION

       I

       THE HEROIC AGE

       II

       EPIC AND ROMANCE

       III

       ROMANTIC MYTHOLOGY

       IV

       THE