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- The Project Gutenberg eBook, Epic and Romance, by W. P. Ker
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- EPIC AND ROMANCE
- ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
- BY
- BY
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
- INTRODUCTION
- I
- THE HEROIC AGE
- II
- EPIC AND ROMANCE
- III
- ROMANTIC MYTHOLOGY
- IV
- THE THREE SCHOOLS—TEUTONIC EPIC—FRENCH EPIC—THE ICELANDIC HISTORIES
- THE HEROIC AGE
- II
- EPIC AND ROMANCE
- III
- ROMANTIC MYTHOLOGY
- IV
- THE THREE SCHOOLS—TEUTONIC EPIC—FRENCH EPIC—THE ICELANDIC HISTORIES
- CHAPTER II
- I
- THE TEUTONIC EPIC
- I
- THE TRAGIC CONCEPTION
- II
- SCALE OF THE POEMS
- The Western Group
- The Northern Group
- III
- EPIC AND BALLAD POETRY
- IV
- THE STYLE OF THE POEMS
- V
- THE PROGRESS OF EPIC
- VARIOUS RENDERINGS OF THE SAME STORY
- VARIOUS RENDERINGS OF THE SAME STORY
- VI
- BEOWULF
- THE TRAGIC CONCEPTION
- II
- SCALE OF THE POEMS
- The Western Group
- The Northern Group
- III
- EPIC AND BALLAD POETRY
- IV
- THE STYLE OF THE POEMS
- V
- THE PROGRESS OF EPIC
- VARIOUS RENDERINGS OF THE SAME STORY
- VARIOUS RENDERINGS OF THE SAME STORY
- VI
- BEOWULF
- CHAPTER III
- I
- 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
- 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
- I
- THE OLD FRENCH EPIC
- THE OLD FRENCH EPIC
- (Chansons de Geste)
- (Chansons de Geste)
- CHAPTER V
- THE OLD FRENCH EPIC
- ROMANCE
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
- ROMANCE
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
- ROMANCE
- ROMANCE
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
- NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- APPENDIX
- Note A (p. 133)
- Rhetoric of the Western and Northern Alliterative Poems
- Rhetoric of the Western and Northern Alliterative Poems
- Note B (p. 205)
- The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason (Laxdæla Saga, c. 40)
- The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason (Laxdæla Saga, c. 40)
- Note C (p. 257)
- Note D (p. 360)
- Two Catalogues of Romances
- Two Catalogues of Romances
- Note A (p. 133)
- Note A (p. 133)
- Rhetoric of the Western and Northern Alliterative Poems
- Rhetoric of the Western and Northern Alliterative Poems
- Note B (p. 205)
- The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason (Laxdæla Saga, c. 40)
- The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason (Laxdæla Saga, c. 40)
- Note C (p. 257)
- Note D (p. 360)
- Two Catalogues of Romances
- Two Catalogues of Romances
- INDEX
- THE END
- THE END
- FOOTNOTES
- AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
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