The Study Of Celtic Literature

The Study Of Celtic Literature
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2023-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3368339923

Reproduction of the original.

Understanding Celtic Religion

Understanding Celtic Religion
Author:
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2015-11-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1783167939

Focused in scope, and emphasizes methodological aspects of Celtic scholarship. This collection of original essays illuminates the importance of theoretical considerations in the study of early medieval sources.

How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature

How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature
Author: Cantrell, James P.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781455605989

Examines Southern writers in a Celtic context. This debut book of literary criticism challenges the common perception that the culture of white Southerners springs from English, or Anglo-Norman, roots. Mr. Cantrell presents persuasive historical and literary evidence that it was the South's Celtic, or Scots-Irish, settlers who had the biggest influence on Southern culture, and that their vibrant spirit is still felt today. It discusses the work of William Gilmore Simms, Ellen Glasgow, the Agrarians, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Pat Conroy, and James Everett Kibler.

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
Author: Huw Pryce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1998-02-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521570398

This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.

On the study of Celtic Literature

On the study of Celtic Literature
Author: Matthew Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2022-02-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752573295

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008

Irish Literature in the Celtic Tiger Years 1990 to 2008
Author: Susan Cahill
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-06-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1441113436

When Irish culture and economics underwent rapid changes during the Celtic Tiger Years, Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne began writing. Now that period of Irish history has closed, this study uncovers how their writing captured that unique historical moment. By showing how Ní Dhuibhne's novels act as considered arguments against attempts to disavow the past, how McCann's protagonists come to terms with their history and how Enright's fiction explores connections and relationships with the female body, Susan Cahill's study pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, between generations, and between past and present. Cahill is able to raise wider questions about Irish culture by looking specifically at how writers engage with the body. In exploring the writers' concern with embodied histories, related questions concerning gender, race, and Irishness are brought to the fore. Such interrogations of corporeality alongside history are imperative, making this a significant contribution to ongoing debates of feminist theory in Irish Studies.