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
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION, LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter II HEROIC POETRY
- Chapter III THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM
- Chapter IV NON-HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter V HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN HEROIC POETRY
- Chapter VI POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO DEITIES
- Chapter VII ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
- Chapter IX POETRY (AND PROSE) RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter X MANTIC POETRY AND PROSE
- Chapter XI THE TEXTS
- Chapter XII RECITATION AND COMPOSITION. THE AUTHOR
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- INDEX
Chapter XII - RECITATION AND COMPOSITION. 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
- Chapter I INTRODUCTION, LITERATURE AND WRITING
- Chapter II HEROIC POETRY
- Chapter III THE HEROIC MILIEU. INDIVIDUALISM
- Chapter IV NON-HEROIC POETRY AND SAGA
- Chapter V HISTORICAL AND UNHISTORICAL ELEMENTS IN HEROIC POETRY
- Chapter VI POETRY AND SAGA RELATING TO DEITIES
- Chapter VII ANTIQUARIAN LEARNING
- Chapter VIII GNOMIC AND DESCRIPTIVE POETRY
- Chapter IX POETRY (AND PROSE) RELATING TO UNSPECIFIED INDIVIDUALS
- Chapter X MANTIC POETRY AND PROSE
- Chapter XI THE TEXTS
- Chapter XII RECITATION AND COMPOSITION. THE AUTHOR
- PART IV EARLY HEBREW LITERATURE
- INDEX
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- The Growth of Literature , pp. 603 - 626Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1936