Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- PREFACE
- PART I THE ORAL LITERATURE OF THE TATARS
- PART II THE ORAL LITERATURE OF POLYNESIA
- PART III NOTES ON THE ORAL LITERATURE OF SOME AFRICAN PEOPLES
- PART IV A GENERAL SURVEY
- Chapter I WRITTEN AND ORAL LITERATURE
- Chapter II THE DISTRIBUTION OF LITERARY TYPES
- Chapter III HEROIC AND NON-HEROIC
- Chapter IV HEROIC NARRATIVE POETRY
- Chapter V POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter VI THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE
- Chapter VII ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE
- Chapter IX MANTIC LITERATURE
- Chapter X RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter XI AUTHORSHIP
- INDEX
Chapter III - HEROIC AND NON-HEROIC
from PART IV - A GENERAL SURVEY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2015
- Frontmatter
- Colophon
- Dedication
- Contents
- Epigraph
- PREFACE
- PART I THE ORAL LITERATURE OF THE TATARS
- PART II THE ORAL LITERATURE OF POLYNESIA
- PART III NOTES ON THE ORAL LITERATURE OF SOME AFRICAN PEOPLES
- PART IV A GENERAL SURVEY
- Chapter I WRITTEN AND ORAL LITERATURE
- Chapter II THE DISTRIBUTION OF LITERARY TYPES
- Chapter III HEROIC AND NON-HEROIC
- Chapter IV HEROIC NARRATIVE POETRY
- Chapter V POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter VI THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE
- Chapter VII ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE
- Chapter IX MANTIC LITERATURE
- Chapter X RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter XI AUTHORSHIP
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. 731 - 753Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1940