Ossian and national epic
By: Gerald Bär, Howard Gaskill (eds.).
Series: Passagem -- Bd. 6; Passagem (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) -- v. 6.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9783631633939
Subjects: History and criticism; Nationalism in literature; European Epic literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why 'Ossian'? / Howard Gaskill; title: Ossian : no laughing matter? / Gerald Bär; title: Macpherson, Ossian, and Homer's Illiad / Sebastian Mitchell; title: Pseudotranslations before and after Ossian : the subversive potential for European culture / Ana Maria Garcia Bernardo; title: The epic nature of the nation : the need for an epic in European national literatures / Gauti Kristmannsson; title: From epic to fragment : reflections on poetic change / Claude Rawson; title: The Kalevala : inventing the national cultural memory / Pirjo Lyytikäinen; title: Die teutsche Ilias; title: : das Nibelungenlied and the rise of German nationalism / John Greenfield; title: Nationalism on stage : Kleist's drama Die Herrmannsschlacht / Peter Hanenberg; title: Peter Weiss's 'Ästhetik des Widerstands' : epic of the failed antifascist resistance? / Klemens Detering; title: Rewriting the origins of the national master narrative in Robert Southey's "Fabulous history (of Portugal)" / Alexandre Dias Pinto; title: The Lusiads as a global epic / Vasco Graça Moura; title: Translating nationalism / Landeg White; title: Traces of Homer or the shadow of the past : Solomos, Cavafy / Katerina Karakassi; title: From primitivism to realism : the Italian epic / Enrico Mattioda; title: The Poema de mio Cid as a vehicle of political ideas : functionalization of national figures in Spanish literature during the dictatorship / Lydia Schmuck; title: Recitations of ancient deeds / João Soares Santos; title: Iracema and Peri versus Tarzan : the epics of Alencar in cartoon form / Maria Aparecida Ribeiro; title: "Camões" or the name of "Portugal" : literature and myth in the seventh art / Maria do Rosário Lupi Bello; title: The bard's garb : Ossian's dress sense / Joep Leerssen; title: Ossian : an epic visual journey / Calum Colvin.