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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ker, W. P. (William Paton), 1855-1923. Epic and romance. London ; New York : Macmillan and Co., 1897 (OCoLC)591238782 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
W P Ker |
| OCLC Number: | 327508 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xx, 451 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 are of narrative. VII. Epic and history. VIII. The northern prose romances. -- The old French epic (chansons de geste) -- Romance and the old French romantic schools. -- Appendix. |
| Other Titles: | Essays on medieval literature |
| Responsibility: | by W.P. Ker. |
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