| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
| Summary |
This is a study of the oral background to medieval English literature and of the 'popular literature' provided by the literate for the entertainment and instruction of the illiterate or the partly literate. It is organised around some of the 'simple forms' identified by folklorists (the best-known narrative examples are the folk tale and the legend or tale). The vast oral literature of the Middle Ages has vanished, leaving only traces, but much of the 'popular literature' has survived, and is of considerable interest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 24, 2015) |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
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Folk literature.
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18.05 English literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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English literature -- Middle English
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Folk literature
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Mittelenglisch
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Trivialliteratur
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature, English -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Literature and folklore -- Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Folk literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Folk literature.
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Littérature populaire.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191810480 |
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0191810487 |
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9780191016295 |
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0191016292 |
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