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9780674062429

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 30: 2010

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    9780674062429

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    0674062426

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-11-14
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium has in its purview all aspects of culture, language, and history of the Celtic peoples, from ancient to modern times. This volume of PHCC contains articles on medieval Irish, Welsh, and Breton literature; post-1800 to modern poetry in Irish, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic; the Irish Revival Movement; and modern Irish and Welsh linguistics. The volume also features the 2010 Kelleher lecture by Dr M. Katharine Simms on the social expression of the literary model of the barefoot king in late medieval Ireland.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. v
Harvard Celtic Colloquiump. 30
The Barefoot Kings: Literary Image and Reality in Later Medieval Irelandp. 1
Why the Mabinogi Has Branchesp. 22
A Window on the Late Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highlands: The Songs of Mairearad Ghriogarachp. 39
Various Things of Great Worth: The Wonders of India and Wales in Peniarth 15p. 61
Celticism in Exile: the London Gaelic League, 1917-1921p. 82
Beauty and the Feast: the Cultural Constructions of Female Beauty and Social Interaction in Twelfth-Century Walesp. 102
The Woman Who Wasn't There: Preliminary Observations on the Perplexing Presence and Absence of the Character of Gráinne in the Tóruigheacht Dhiarmada agus Ghráinnep. 116
The Bell Magazine and the "Gaelic Question:" Debates over Language and Literature in the Mid-Twentieth Centuryp. 127
Caitlín Maude's "Impí": Entreating Escapep. 138
In Quest of an Ancient Breton Literaturep. 148
Abjection and Disorderly Elements of Corporeal Existence in the Irish-Language Poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Biddy Jenkinsonp. 157
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire: Blood-drinking, Art's Sister and Censorship in Father Peter O'Leary's Manuscripts P and Peadp. 175
Standard, Standardization and Assessments of Standardness in Irishp. 207
James Thomson's The Seasons, Gone Gaelic: The Emergence of a Poetic Trendp. 236
Wise Women and Wanton Warriors in Early Irish Literaturep. 259
Irish Language Revival and 'Cultural Chaos': Sources and Scholars in Irish Language Journalismp. 273
Making the Journey from 'Outsiders' to 'Insiders': Attitudes and Experience of 'Celtic' culture and the Welsh Language among In-migrants in north Wales, 1970-2010p. 293
Abstracts of unpublished papers for volume 30p. 305
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