The Heroic Age (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by H. Munro Chadwick

Overview

In literary theory, the Heroic Age was the time of great deeds recorded in epic poems like The Iliad. In this 1912 study, drawing from anthropology and philology, the author develops the idea of the Heroic Age by comparing Greek and Teutonic literary traditions, finding echoes in medieval England and Serbia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411457690
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	09/20/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	494
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Hector Munro Chadwick (1870-1947) was a philologist and historian, who taught Anglo-Saxon literature at the University of Cambridge. With his wife, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, he compiled The Growth of Literature (1932-1940), a multicultural survey of oral traditions and poetry. He also wrote Studies in Anglo-Saxon Institutions (1905), The Origin of the English Nation (1907), and Early Scotland (1949).