Simple forms : essays on medieval English popular literature /
Simple Forms is a study of popular or folk literature in the medieval period. Focusing both on the vast body of oral literature that lies behind the written texts which have survived from the medieval period and on the popular literature provided by literate authors for audiences of hearers or reade...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Folk literature? Popular literature?
- Notes on popular culture
- The ocean of story : narrative forms-- myth, epic, and heroic lay
- Ballads
- Popular romances
- Folk tale; folk tale into art
- Sage, tale, legend
- "Merry tale," animal tale, and fable
- Proverb
- Riddle
- Satire
- Songs and drama.