Author: George Fraser BlackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Macpherson's Ossian and the Ossianic Controversy
Author: George Fraser BlackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary forgeries and mystifications
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Ossianic Controversy
Author: John M'PhersonMacpherson's Ossian and the Ossianic Controversy
Author: George Fraser 1866-1948 BlackPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014677457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Macpherson's Ossian and the Ossianic Controversy
Author: George Fraser 1866-1948 BlackPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014013064
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Ossianic Unconformities
Author: Eric GidalPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393818X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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.
Samuel Johnson, the Ossian Fraud, and the Celtic Revival in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: Thomas M. CurleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113947734X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
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.
The Reception of Ossian in Europe
Author: Howard GaskillPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847146007
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Collection of international research surveying the reception of James Macpherson's Ossian poems in European literature and culture.
Macpherson's Ossian and the Ossianic Controversy. A Contribution Towards a Bibliography. By George F. Black
Author: George Fraser BlackLittell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim LittellOssian and the Ossianic Literature
Author: Alfred Trübner NuttPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bards and bardism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description