
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
by W. P. Ker
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470
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~5640 min
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English
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Chapters (470)
- EPIC AND ROMANCE
- ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
- W. P. KER
- PREFACE
- POSTSCRIPT
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION I The Heroic Age
- II Epic and Romance
- III Romantic Mythology
- IV The Three Schools—Teutonic Epic—French Epic—The Icelandic Histories
- CHAPTER II 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
- CHAPTER III THE ICELANDIC SAGAS I Iceland and the Heroic Age
- II Matter and Form
- III The Heroic Ideal
- IV Tragic Imagination
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