Kings and Captains: Variations on a Heroic Theme

Charles Moorman reexamines several major works of the western heroic tradition: The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, the Norse sagas, and the Arthurian cycle. Disregarding the usual limited definitions which have controlled the study of heroic literature, he draws together these disparate works by proposing a theme common to them all: the opposition of two major figures whom he names king and captain. The figure of the king arises from the community with its

Author: Charles Moorman
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9780813153599

About the Author

Charles Moorman, Dean of the University of Southern Mississippi, has published extensively. Among his recent books Arthurian Triptych, The Book of Kyng Arthur, and A Knyght There Was.

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