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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ossian"”.
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"Intertextuality in Goethe's ""Werther"""
… Galotti, Chapter Three Homer, Chapter Four Ossian, and Chapter Five eighteenth-century knowledge. This study examines intertextual references to authors, scholars, literature, and literary characters from other novels clearly identifiable in Werther. Werther’s explicit references to other …
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The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
… of the series of works and figures (Orpheus, Ossian, and Tristan) in this study lead the author to propose a threefold historical definition of the voice: the mimetic, the representational, and the expressive.
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Knowing and Understanding the Past in Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Historiographical Thought
… and Hugh Blair for the epic poems of Homer and Ossian to be read as veracious historical narratives. It then suggests that a dramatic adaptation of Ossian – John Home’s 'The Fatal Discovery' (1769) – makes a case for theatre as a mode of historiography by appropriating the scenographic changes …
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Paintings and their irreducibility to explanation : myth and multiform aesthetic experience
… national epic Romantic myth The Poems of Ossian, I was able to study the main issues involved. Key writers include Joseph Campbell (1949), Carl Jung (1966) and Levi Strauss (1963/1968), before finally considering Wittgenstein's (1979) remarks on myth. Key contemporary artists include …
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Landscape’s Constitutive Agency in Macpherson's Ossianic Collections: The Liminal Sublime in Ossian's Landscape
Recent scholarly debate about James Macpherson’s Ossianic Collections has sought to place them within their social and cultural context, away from the authenticity debate. This included considerations on Ossianic topographies, which determine the influence of Ossianic geographies on subsequent …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
… Churchill (1731-1764). Reading Churchill’s anti-Ossian poetry, I argue that the portrayal of the Highlander as heterosexually effeminate enables the articulation of patriotism as heteroerotic balance. Building on this, Chapter Two analyses the sexual and political controversies that mark the …
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Our ancient national airs: Scottish song collecting c.1760-1888
… A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs, and the Ossian works of James Macpherson, embodying an urge to record and preserve the heritage of Highland Scotland’s primitive past. The collaborations of Robert Burns with James Johnson and George Thomson, and the English Joseph Ritson’s Scotish Song, …
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An investigation of metal contaminants in sediments of Arctic Svalbard: Inferences for sources and transport pathways
… and the utilisation of alkyl Pb in petrol. Lake Ossian (ICOS1), a site situated close to Ny Ålesund provides unequivocal evidence for the atmospheric transport of Pb. The excess 206Pb/207Pb ratio was calculated as 1.165, indicative of an Eastern European emission source. The most compelling …
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Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
… other Scots, believed in the authenticity of Ossian’s translated poems by James Macpherson. This patriotic devotion to Scottish culture influenced the way that Kames went about “improving” his own lands and who he chose to work on them. There were parts of Scottish culture that were depicted …