La Chanson de Roland

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Macmillan, 1920 - 316 pages
 

Contents

The motive of the poem
xxv
Primitive manner of presenting the ideas characters and customs
xxvi
Primitive poets unable to depict the manners and customs of foreign peoples differently from their own
xxviii
Charlemagne
xxix
Roland
xxx
Oliver
xxxi
Ganelon
xxxii
Naimes
xxxiv
The twelve peers
xxxvi
Marsile
xxxvii
Blancandrin
xxxviii
The Baligant episode
xxxix
Baligant
xl
Subordinate characters in the pagan army
xlii
Bramimonde
xliv
Aude
xlv
Who was the author of the poem as we know it from the Oxford manuscript?
xlvi
What indications point to in regard to the author
xlviii
Approximate date of the poem
xlix
Verse structure of the Chanson
li
Unsolved problems in regard to the Roland material
liv
The manuscript
lv
Peculiar significance of the primitive epic
lvi
The poem a series of tableaux
lvii
Artistic construction of the central feature of the poem the battle of Roncesvalles
lviii
Characteristics of the style of the Chanson
lx
Strophe repetition or les couplets similaires
lxi
The contradictions in the poem
lxii
Sentiment and emotion in the poem
lxiii
Absence of the comic element
lxiv
Absence of the miraculous
lxv
La Chronique du faux Turpin
lxvi
Gradual transformation in the form of the Chanson de Roland to suit the spirit of the times
lxviii
Roland in Germany
lxix
The Netherlands
lxx
England
lxxii
Spain
lxxiii
Portugal and other countries
lxxv
STATUES DE ROLAND ET DOLIVIER lxxvi
lxxvi
French versions written by Italians
lxxvii
reali di Francia
lxxviii
A new kind of epic peculiar to Italy
lxxix
Complete transformation of Roland
lxxx
Roland almost forgotten during three cen turies
lxxxi
Nineteenth century studies
lxxxii
Allusions to Roland in nineteenth century literature
lxxxiii

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