Sword and lyre. The heroic world of the Anglo-Saxon epic
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The book is dedicated to ancient English heroic-epic poetry and the ideal world in which its heroes live and act. It examines works of different genres: the actual heroic epic, elegy, poems on biblical plots and historical songs in their correlation with the heroic world of Anglo -Saxons. He is born and finds the most complete embodiment in the epic, to him - the past - the real elegy is opposed to, under his influence the biblical narrative is transformed, the heroes of historical songs try to follow his ideals.
For medievists, historians of literature and culture, folklorists, as well as everyone who is interested in the Middle Ages
For medievists, historians of literature and culture, folklorists, as well as everyone who is interested in the Middle Ages
Author:
Author:Melnikova Elena Aleksandrovna
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Reference books
- Category:Esoteric, Folklore & Myth
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: Library of World History
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-02-039670-8
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