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Author : George Fraser Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Macpherson's Ossian and the Ossianic Controversy written by George Fraser Black and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona J. Stafford
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007819
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)
Download or read book From Gaelic to Romantic written by Fiona J. Stafford and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of James Macpherson's Ossian in the 1760s caused an international sensation. The discovery of poetic fragments that seemed to have survived in the Highlands of Scotland for some 1500 years gripped the imagination of the reading public, who seized eagerly on the newly available texts for glimpses of a lost primitive world. That Macpherson's versions of the ancient heroic verse were more creative adaptations of the oral tradition than literal translations of a clearly identifiable original may have exercised contemporary antiquarians and contributed eventually to a decline in the popularity of Ossian. Yet for most early readers, as for generations of enthusiastic followers, what mattered was not the accuracy of the translation, but the excitement of encountering the primitive, and the mood engendered by the process of reading. The essays in this collection represent an attempt by late twentieth-century readers to chart the cultural currents that flowed into Macpherson's texts, and to examine their peculiar energy. Scholars distinguished in the fields of Gaelic, German, Irish, Scottish, French, English and American literature, language, history and cultural studies have each contributed to the exploration of Macpherson's achievement, with the aim of situating his notoriously elusive texts in a web of diverse contexts. Important new research into the traditional Gaelic sources is placed side by side with discussions of the more immediate political impetus of his poetry, while studies of the reception of Ossian in Scotland, Germany, France and England are part of the larger recognition of the cultural significance of Macpherson's work, and its importance to issues of fragmentation, liminality, colonialism, national identity, sensibility and gender.
Author : Eric Gidal
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393818X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Ossianic Unconformities written by Eric Gidal and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century. In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who used statistics, cartography, and geomorphology to map and thereby vindicate Macpherson's controversial eighteenth-century renderings of Gaelic oral traditions. Although these writers primarily sought to establish the authenticity of Macpherson's "translations," they came to record, through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Their obsessive and elaborate attempts to fix both the poetry and the land into a stable set of coordinates developed what we can now perceive as a nascent ecological perspective on literature in a changing world. Gidal examines the details of these imaginary geographies in conjunction with the social and spatial histories of Belfast and the River Lagan valley, Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde, and the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, regions that form both the sixth-century kingdom of Dál Riata and the fabled terrain of the Ossianic poems. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception of the poems of Ossian, Ossianic Unconformities unites literary history and book studies with geography, cartography, and geology to present and consider imaginative responses to environmental catastrophe.
Author : Thomas M. Curley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113947734X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland written by Thomas M. Curley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Macpherson's famous hoax, publishing his own poems as the writings of the ancient Scots bard Ossian in the 1760s, remains fascinating to scholars as the most successful literary fraud in history. This study presents the fullest investigation of his deception to date, by looking at the controversy from the point of view of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson was an argument with wide implications not only for literature, but for the emerging national identities of the British nations during the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley offers a wealth of genuinely new information, detailing as never before Johnson's involvement in the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interaction with others in the debate. The appendix reproduces a rare pamphlet against Ossian written with the assistance of Johnson himself. This book will be an important addition to knowledge about both the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson.
Author : Howard Gaskill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847146007
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Reception of Ossian in Europe written by Howard Gaskill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of international research surveying the reception of James Macpherson's Ossian poems in European literature and culture.
Author : Alfred Trübner Nutt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ossian and the Ossianic Literature written by Alfred Trübner Nutt and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1032 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Ossian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Ossian written by Ossian and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000435237
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture written by Malcolm Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this book explores the relationship between the Gaelic and English spheres of life, from the life of the bilingual Gael, in the confrontation of Highland and Lowland Scotland and the literary expressions of these. It is argued that the picture of Gaelic society that is popularly accepted does not owe its form to any simple observation, but to symbolic and metaphorical requirements imposed by the larger society. Beginning with the birth of the Romantic movement and moving on to modern Gaelic literature and anthropological studies, aspects of the relationship of a dominant to a ‘minority’ culture are raised. The racial stereotypes of Celt and Anglo-Saxon that were widely accepted in the 19th Century are also discussed, and the understanding of how a dominant intellectual world has used Gaelic society in the process of seeking its own definition is pursued through a study of the concepts of ‘folklore’ and the ‘folk’.
Author : Ossian
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a literal tr. into Engl. and a dissertation on the authenticity of the poems by A. Clerk. With the tr. by Macpherson written by Ossian and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ossian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Ossian. In the Original Gaelic; with a Literal Translation Into English, and a Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems, by A. Clerk. Together with the English Translation by Macpherson written by Ossian and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archibald Clerk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic with a Literal Translation Into English and a Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems written by Archibald Clerk and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daisy Pearl Blum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Influence of Ossian on English Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries written by Daisy Pearl Blum and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Lindsay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 184714215X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Index of English Literary Manuscripts written by Alexander Lindsay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles. Information is drawn from material in libraries, record offices and private collections throughout the world. The listing of each author's manuscripts is preceded by an introduction. The book records many hitherto unrecorded manuscripts. The writers considered are: Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, James Thomson, Hester Lynch Thrale, Horace Walpole, Joseph Warton, Thomas Warton the Younger, Isaac Watts, Anne Finch, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edward Young.
Author : Donald Campbell (lieutenant, 57th Regiment.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems written by Donald Campbell (lieutenant, 57th Regiment.) and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815623533
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Fionn mac Cumhail written by James MacKillop and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1985-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
