Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Corrigenda
- Explanatory note on ‘types’ and ‘saga’
- PART I RUSSIAN ORAL LITERATURE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION. ORAL TRADITION AND WRITING
- Chapter II HEROIC POETRY. THE BYLINY
- Chapter III THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM IN THE HEROIC POEMS
- Chapter IV HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE BYLINY
- Chapter V THE TEXTS
- Chapter VI SAGA
- Chapter VII NON-HEROIC POETRY. THE STIKHI (I)
- Chapter VIII POETRY RELATING TO SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS AND TO THE SAINTS OF THE GREEK CHURCH. THE STIKHI (2)
- Chapter IX POST-HEROIC, ANTIQUARIAN, GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter X POETRY RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter XI THE RECITATION AND COMPOSITION OF HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA. THE SKAZITELI
- Chapter XII THE RECITATION AND COMPOSITION OF RELIGIOUS POETRY. THE KALÊKI
- Chapter XIII THE POPULAR POET AND STORY-TELLER
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN PART I
- PART II YUGOSLAV ORAL POETRY
- PART III EARLY INDIAN LITERATURE
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- INDEX
Chapter IX - POST-HEROIC, ANTIQUARIAN, GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY AND SAGA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Corrigenda
- Explanatory note on ‘types’ and ‘saga’
- PART I RUSSIAN ORAL LITERATURE
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION. ORAL TRADITION AND WRITING
- Chapter II HEROIC POETRY. THE BYLINY
- Chapter III THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM IN THE HEROIC POEMS
- Chapter IV HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN THE BYLINY
- Chapter V THE TEXTS
- Chapter VI SAGA
- Chapter VII NON-HEROIC POETRY. THE STIKHI (I)
- Chapter VIII POETRY RELATING TO SCRIPTURAL SUBJECTS AND TO THE SAINTS OF THE GREEK CHURCH. THE STIKHI (2)
- Chapter IX POST-HEROIC, ANTIQUARIAN, GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter X POETRY RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter XI THE RECITATION AND COMPOSITION OF HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA. THE SKAZITELI
- Chapter XII THE RECITATION AND COMPOSITION OF RELIGIOUS POETRY. THE KALÊKI
- Chapter XIII THE POPULAR POET AND STORY-TELLER
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN PART I
- PART II YUGOSLAV ORAL POETRY
- PART III EARLY INDIAN LITERATURE
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. 207 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1936