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The Sense of the Song of Roland / Robert F. Cook.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745683
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 841/.1
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preliminary Note -- PART ONE. Commentary on the Narrative -- Before Roncevaux (laisses 1–68) -- The Battle of Roncevaux (laisses 69–188) -- The Victory over Baligant (laisses 189–269) -- The Trial of Ganelon (laisses 270–91) -- PART TWO. The Sense of the Song of Roland -- 1. Rereading the Song of Roland -- 2. Démesure and Choice -- 3. The Characters: Words and Deeds -- 4. Coherence and Ideology -- 5. The Feudal-Christian Setting -- 6. The Feudal-Christian Ethos -- 7. The Aesthetics of Heroism -- 8. Roland's Simple Heroism -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: This book offers a detailed interpretation of the Song of Roland, one of the best-known texts in all heroic literature. It also includes a commentary that treats the poem's place in the eleventh (or early twelfth) century, its importance to the society that produced it, and the ways in which it is read today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preliminary Note -- PART ONE. Commentary on the Narrative -- Before Roncevaux (laisses 1–68) -- The Battle of Roncevaux (laisses 69–188) -- The Victory over Baligant (laisses 189–269) -- The Trial of Ganelon (laisses 270–91) -- PART TWO. The Sense of the Song of Roland -- 1. Rereading the Song of Roland -- 2. Démesure and Choice -- 3. The Characters: Words and Deeds -- 4. Coherence and Ideology -- 5. The Feudal-Christian Setting -- 6. The Feudal-Christian Ethos -- 7. The Aesthetics of Heroism -- 8. Roland's Simple Heroism -- Works Cited -- Index

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This book offers a detailed interpretation of the Song of Roland, one of the best-known texts in all heroic literature. It also includes a commentary that treats the poem's place in the eleventh (or early twelfth) century, its importance to the society that produced it, and the ways in which it is read today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)