قراءة كتاب Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
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اللغة: English
Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature
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this and other of his writings, towards the better understanding of the old poems and their history.
W. P. K.
Oxford, 25th Jan. 1908.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
I
The Heroic Age
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| Epic and Romance: the two great orders of medieval narrative | 3 |
| Epic, of the "heroic age," preceding Romance of the "age of chivalry" | 4 |
| The heroic age represented in three kinds of literature—Teutonic Epic, French Epic, and the Icelandic Sagas | 6 |
| Conditions of Life in an "heroic age" | 7 |
| Homer and the Northern poets | 9 |
| Homeric passages in Beowulf and in the Song of Maldon |
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| Progress of poetry in the heroic age | 13 |
| Growth of Epic, distinct in character, but generally incomplete, among the Teutonic nations | 14 |
II
Epic and Romance
| The complex nature of Epic | 16 |
| No kind or aspect of life that may not be included | 16 |
| This freedom due to the dramatic quality of true (e.g. Homeric) Epic as explained by Aristotle |
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| Epic does not require a magnificent ideal subject such as those of the artificial epic (Aeneid, Gerusalemme Liberata, Paradise Lost) |
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| The Iliad unlike these poems in its treatment of "ideal" motives (patriotism, etc.) | 19 |
| True Epic begins with a dramatic plot and characters | 20 |
| The Epic of the Northern heroic age is sound in its dramatic conception and does not depend on impersonal ideals (with exceptions, in the Chansons de geste) |
20 21 |
| The German heroes in history and epic (Ermanaric, Attila, Theodoric) | 21 |
| Relations of Epic to historical fact | 22 |
| The epic poet is free in the conduct of his story but his story and personages must belong to his own people |
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| Nature of Epic brought out by contrast with secondary narrative poems, where the subject is not national | 27 |
| This secondary kind of poem may be excellent, but is always different in character from native Epic | 28 |
| Disputes of academic critics about the "Epic Poem" | 30 |
| Tasso's defence of Romance. Pedantic attempts to restrict the compass of Epic | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@20406@[email protected]#Page_30" class="pginternal" |