Celticism

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Terence Brown
Rodopi, 1996 - 299 páginas
The volume collects papers from a multi-disciplinary workshop, held under the auspices of the European Science Foundation, which examined the idea of Celticism in its European contexts from the eighteenth century to the present. Linguists, historians, cultural theorists and literary critics from a range of European countries addressed for the first time in a sustained way how the idea of Celticism developed and how it affected many aspects of European culture. A primary focus of the volume is James Macpherson's Ossian, now under-going a re-estimation. Other topics which receive significant examination are Celticism as a force in cultural nationalism, Celticism in contemporary Christianity, primitivism, the image of the Celt in archaeology, historiography, political propaganda and the role of the idea of the Celtic in linguistic taxonomy. This pioneering work will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of subjects in which the nature, function and effect of cultural concepts and images are of central concern.

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Ann Rigney
19
Images of Celtic Languages from 1600 to 1800
21
C Tristram
35
Timothy Champion
61
Fiona Stafford
79
Patrick SimsWilliams
97
Mícheál Mac Craith
125
Donald E Meek
140
The Celts and their Resistance to History
159
Annie Jourdan
183
George Watson
207
Terence Brown
221
Howard Gaskill
257
Luke Gibbons
273
Index of personal names
293
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Página 107 - Nor thou, though learn'd, his homelier thoughts neglect; Let thy sweet Muse the rural faith sustain; These are the themes of simple, sure effect, That add new conquests to her boundless reign, And fill, with double force, her heart-commanding strain.
Página 88 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
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