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EPIC AND ROMANCE
ESSAYS ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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
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
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
THE OLD FRENCH EPIC
(Chansons de Geste)
CHAPTER V
ROMANCE
AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
ROMANCE
AND THE OLD FRENCH ROMANTIC SCHOOLS
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
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
INDEX
THE END
FOOTNOTES
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