Download or read book Heroic Sagas and Ballads written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Heroic Sagas and Ballads, Stephen A. Mitchell examines the world of the medieval Icelandic legendary sagas and their legacy in Scandinavia. Central to his argument is the view that these heroic texts should be studied in the light of the later Icelandic Middle Ages rather than that of the Viking age, although the stories, the tellers, and the audiences are clearly concerned with exactly this period of Scandinavian history. Viewing these sagas as the products of highly diverse forms of inspiration and creation—some oral, some written—Mitchell explores their aesthetic and social dimensions, demonstrating their function both as entertainment and as a literature with a more serious purpose, one with deep roots in Nordic literary consciousness. The traditions that these sagas relate possessed an importance beyond the temporal and geographical confines of medieval Iceland, and Heroic Sagas and Ballads considers the process by which these heroic materials were subsequently recast as metrical romances in Iceland and as ballads throughout the rest of Scandinavia. It is ultimately concerned with much more than just those stories that inspired such modern writers as Richard Wagner and H. Rider Haggard; its anthropological and folkloric approach to the legendary sagas shows how the extraliterary dimensions of medieval texts can be explored. Heroic Sagas and Ballads addresses issues of central importance to medievalists, folklorists, comparatists, Scandinavianists, and students of the ballad.
Download or read book Heroic Ballads written by David Henry Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Praise of Heroes written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heroic Ballads of Russia written by Leonard Arthur Magnus and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With His Pistol in His Hand written by Am Paredes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of Gregorio Cortez Lira, a Mexican ranchhand who became the hero of a popular ballad after a shootout with a Texas sheriff, and describes various versions of the ballad
Download or read book Heroic Ballads of Servia written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ballads of Servia occupy a high position, perhaps the highest position, in the ballad literature of Europe. Of them Jacob Grimm wrote: “They would, if well known, astonish Europe,” and “in them breathes a clear and inborn poetry such as can scarcely be found among any other modern people.”1 The origin of this popular literature goes back to a period of which no written record exists; its known history dates from the fourteenth century, since which time it is absolutely continuous. And in Servia, unlike England and Spain, ballads still survive as an important part of the nation’s intellectual life; they are still sung, and still composed, by peasant poets who have received their training from oral tradition instead of from the printed page. According to their subjects the Servian ballads may be divided into two very unequal divisions, the first, and by far the larger, being based on the national history, while the second lacks any such historical foundation. Yet the line between the two groups cannot be strictly drawn; well-known folk-lore motives or mere popular jests are continually attached to historical heroes. Such ballads as Prince Marko’s Plowing and Marko Drinks Wine in Ramazán called “historical” only in the most ultra-catholic interpretation of the term. The historical ballads may again be divided into more or less definite cycles. First in order of time come those dealing with the kings of the Némanich dynasty (1168-1367). This royal line made less impression on the popular mind by its heroic exploits than by its piety in founding churches and monasteries (cf. p. 28). The surviving ballads of the cycle, which are few in number, are represented in this volume by Urosh and the Sons of Marnyáva1 and The Building of Skadar. After the death of the great tsar Stepan Dushan in 1356, his son, the weak Urosh, came to the throne, but was unable to preserve his authority intact. The leader of the revolting chieftains was King Vukáshin, who defeated his lawful superior and caused him to be slain. Of the rivalry of the two men the ballad Urosh and the Sons of Marnyáva preserves a distant echo; to the historic brothers Vukáshin and Úglyesha it adds a third, Goyko, unknown outside of folk-lore. Another glimpse, still more legendary, of the three brothers is preserved in The Building of Skadar.
Download or read book The Book of British Ballads written by Samuel Carter Hall and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of ancient English poetry consisting of old heroic ballads songs and other pieces ed by T Percy 4 other copies with cancel leaves in vol 1 written by English poetry and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Serbo Croatian Heroic Poems written by David E. Bynum and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 1993 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first work in a new Garland series contains translations of, and commentary on, selected epic texts from the district of Bihac in northern Bosnia. Many of the original Serbo-Croatian texts were published in 1979 by the Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature at Harvard U. The nine oral epics translated represent in English the traditional narrative singing of Serbo-Croatian of four poets whose songs were recorded between 1935 and 1963 in the region known locally as Bihaika Krajina. The editor has incorporated with the translations additional information from other sources about the oral tradition of the region. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Heroic Ballads of Servia written by Georger Rapall Noyes and Leonard Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Merry Adventures of Robin Hood written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve selected adventures of Robin Hood and his outlaw band who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets Together with Some Few of Later Date written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women Writing Back Writing Women Back written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in early modern women writers is on the rise. However, familiarity with their works varies greatly from one country to another, and resources to assess their historical significance remain insufficient. Yet empirical evidence suggests that women writers who are no longer well-known today played surprisingly varied roles in the literary field of early modern Europe. The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In particular, they focus on three themes: the creation of female spaces or communities; women's appropriation of existing or developing literary genres; and transnational perspectives on early modern women's writings. Contributors include: Vanda Anastácio, Bernadette Andrea, Mónica Bolufer, Philiep Bossier, Hans Bots, Kathleen Garay, Nina Geerdink, Perry Gethner, Elena Gretchanaia, Ineke Janse, Madeleine Jeay, Anne-Marie Mai, Christine Mongenot, Meredith Ray, Ina Schabert, and Lynn Lara Westwater.
Download or read book Women Writing Back Writing Women Back written by Anke Gilleir and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Privileging both a transnational and a sociological approach, this volume explores the position of women in the early modern literary field, emphasising the international scope of their literature and examining their historical position, influence, network and dialogues.
Download or read book Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians written by Woislav M. Petrovitch and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Children s Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads Songs and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets chiefly of the Lyric Kind Together with Some Few of Later Date written by Thomas Percy and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
