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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the editors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Preface
- Dr Johnson and the Ruffian: New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James Macpherson (Fiona Stafford)
- What Did James Macpherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762? (Howard Gaskill)
- James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian: A Translation of “Low” Culture into “High”? (Gauti Kristmannsson)
- Ossian and Orality; or the Sound of Ossian (Sebastian Mitchell)
- Genre and Gender: Ossianic Poetry from Oral Tradition to National Epic and Lyrical Drama (Gerald Bär)
- “Original Harmony”: Ossianic Voices in Alencar’s Indianist Novels (Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass)
- Ossian in the New World: Alexandre Levy’s Symphonic Poem, Comala (James Porter)
- Confessions of a Justified Folklorist (Landeg White)
- The American Indian Oral Tradition (Ana Paula da Silva Machado)
- Fictional Representations of Cultural Realities: Orality and Literature in Novels of Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy (Margarida Pereira Martins)
- Different Pathways in Traditional Portuguese and Chinese Literature (Ana Costa Lopes)
- Postscript
- Notes on Contributors
- Series index
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ISSN 1861-583X
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DOI 10.3726/b17587
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About the editors
GERALD BÄR is Assistant Professor at the Universidade Aberta of Portugal where he teaches online in the areas of Cutural Studies, German and Comparative Literature. He is Senior Researcher of CECC, co-editor of the Revista de Estudos Alemães in Portugal and has published widely on the motif of the “Doppelgänger” in literature and film and on the reception of Ossian.
HOWARD GASKILL is Honorary Fellow in German at the University of Edinburgh. His major research interests have included Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, Scottish-German literary relations (in particular Macpherson’s Ossian), literary translation, and more recently Arthur Koestler. In 2019 his translation into English of Hölderlin’s novel Hyperion appeared with Open Book Publishers, and he is now working on a new translation of Goethe’s Werther.
About the book
The aim of this book is to revisit Ossian, whilst broadening the scope of oral literature and translation to embrace cultural contexts outside of Europe. Epics, ballads, prose tales, ritual and lyric songs, as genres, existed orally before writing was invented. Serious debate about them, at least in modern Western culture, may be said to have begun with James Macpherson and Thomas Percy. Considering the ongoing debate on orality and authenticity in the case of Ossian, this book includes ground-breaking, previously published essays which provide essential information relating to orality, Ossian and translation, but have been frequently overlooked. Its contributions focus on the aspects of authenticity, transmediation, popular poetry and music, examining Scottish, German, Portuguese, Brazilian, African, American Indian, Indian and Chinese literatures.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank
the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa for acquiring the copyrights of previously published articles and for supporting the publication of this book;
Martin White for his help in finalizing Landeg’s article;
Marta Areia, Departamento Fotográfico, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian for the information on Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso’s works in general and the copyright situation of Promontório Cabeça índigo MARES d’OSSIAN Rose Orange in particular;
Sonya Leonard for permission to reproduce her late husband’s screen print ‘ThePlaceThePeople’, and Calum Colvin for providing a photograph of this print;
and, last but not least, Elsa Casimiro for her invaluable text/word processing.
Este trabalho é financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT – Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., no âmbito do projeto «UIDP/00126/2020».
Contents
Fiona Stafford
Dr Johnson and the Ruffian: New Evidence in the Dispute between Samuel Johnson and James Macpherson
Howard Gaskill
What Did James Macpherson Really Leave on Display at His Publisher’s Shop in 1762?
Gauti Kristmannsson
James Macpherson’s Poems of Ossian: A Translation of “Low” Culture into “High”?
Sebastian Mitchell
Ossian and Orality; or the Sound of Ossian
Gerald Bär
Genre and Gender: Ossianic Poetry from Oral Tradition to National Epic and Lyrical Drama
Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass
“Original Harmony”: Ossianic Voices in Alencar’s Indianist Novels
James Porter
Ossian in the New World: Alexandre Levy’s Symphonic Poem, Comala
Landeg White
Confessions of a Justified Folklorist
Ana Paula da Silva Machado
Details
- Pages
- 200
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631825822
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631825839
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631825846
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631821152
- DOI
- 10.3726/b17587
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (August)
- Published
- Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 200 pp., 4 fig. col., 5 fig. b/w, 2 tables.
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