Narration and Hero: Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period 9783110338157, 9783110336139

Narration and Hero: Recounting the Deeds of Heroes in Literature and Art of the Early Medieval Period 9783110338157, 9783110336139

By the early middle ages vernacular aristocratic traditions of heroic narration were firmly established in Western and N

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On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780300148626

Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History con

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle's fascinating work looks at the concept of the Hero by comparing a wide range of different types of

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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History 9780520911536

In his 1840 lectures on heroes, Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and social critic, championed the importance of the i

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On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History 9780803250307

内容简介 · · · · · · The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about

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The Man of Wiles in Popular Arabic Literature: A Study of a Medieval Arab Hero 9780748645039

The Man of Wiles - terrorist or saint? The Man of Wiles (otherwise known as the Master Thief, the Trickster or the Fool

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Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England 9780812296846

Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divi

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Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic 9462984085, 9789462984080, 9789048534593

In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals. In the fiction of the Middle Ages, however, the poss

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Outlawry, Liminality, and Sanctity in the Literature of the Early Medieval North Atlantic 9789048534593

This book demonstrates how qualities and activities first associated with outlaws were repurposed to depict other transg

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The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country 9783849172145

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