The Heroic Age - Couverture souple

Chadwick, H. Munro

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1108010113 ISBN 13 : 9781108010115

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This 1912 comparative study examines Teutonic and Greek heroic poetry and literature, shedding new light on aspects of both cultures.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this book, first published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series, Chadwick compares Teutonic and Greek heroic literature, to shed light on both. This was the first discussion of his theory of a Heroic Age, which he was to expand in a three-volume work written with his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, The Growth of Literature. Chadwick examines topics such as supernatural, religious, and mythic elements in Germanic, Scandinavian, and Homeric literature deriving from an older oral tradition, and also what they can tell us about the societies from which they derive. He uses philology and archaeological evidence as well as historical and literary sources, and shows how many common themes emerge in the different traditions. He argues that a heroic literature is something that appears in many cultures at different periods in history and which therefore requires a knowledge of anthropology for full understanding.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108010113
• ISBN 13: 9781108010115
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 496
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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