Epic and Romance

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Author

Ker, W. P. (William Paton), 1855-1923

Title

Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature

Credits

E-text prepared by Ted Garvin, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Epic poetry -- History and criticism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

20406

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20406

Release Date

January 20, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.EPIC AND ROMANCE
2. 2.W. P. KER
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.POSTSCRIPT
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.CHAPTER II — 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 — VI — BEOWULF
8. 8.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
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — THE OLD FRENCH EPIC — THE OLD FRENCH EPIC — ( Chansons de Geste )
10. 10.AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS — ROMANCE — AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
11. 11.NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
12. 12.APPENDIX — Note A ( p. 133 ) — Rhetoric of the Western and Northern Alliterative Poems — Note B ( p. 205 ) — The Meeting of Kjartan and King Olaf Tryggvason ( Laxdæla Saga , c. 40) — Note C ( p. 257 ) — Note D ( p. 360 ) — Two Catalogues of Romances
13. 13.INDEX — THE END
14. 14.FOOTNOTES

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