Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Corrigenda
- Explanatory note on ‘types’ and ‘saga’
- PART I RUSSIAN ORAL LITERATURE
- PART II YUGOSLAV ORAL POETRY
- PART III EARLY INDIAN LITERATURE
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION, LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter II THE HEROIC AGE. HEROIC SAGA AND POETRY
- Chapter III NON-HEROIC SAGA AND POETRY
- Chapter IV THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM
- Chapter V HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE SAGAS
- Chapter VI ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VII THEOLOGICAL AND MANTIC LITERATURE
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE. LITERATURE RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter IX THE TEXTS. RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter X THE AUTHOR
- INDEX
Chapter X - THE AUTHOR
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Corrigenda
- Explanatory note on ‘types’ and ‘saga’
- PART I RUSSIAN ORAL LITERATURE
- PART II YUGOSLAV ORAL POETRY
- PART III EARLY INDIAN LITERATURE
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION, LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter II THE HEROIC AGE. HEROIC SAGA AND POETRY
- Chapter III NON-HEROIC SAGA AND POETRY
- Chapter IV THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM
- Chapter V HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE SAGAS
- Chapter VI ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VII THEOLOGICAL AND MANTIC LITERATURE
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE. LITERATURE RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter IX THE TEXTS. RECITATION AND COMPOSITION
- Chapter X THE AUTHOR
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. 759 - 778Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1936