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Arthur in the Celtic Languages
This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been constantly reworked and adapted from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It shows how the figure of Arthur evolved from the leader of a warband in early medieval north Britain to a king whose court becomes the starting-point for knightly adventures, and how characters and tales are reimagined, reshaped and reinterpreted according to local circumstances, traditions and preoccupations at different periods. From the celebrated early Welsh poetry and prose tales to less familiar modern Breton and Cornish fiction, from medieval Irish adaptations of the legend to the Gaelic ballads of Scotland, Arthur in the Celtic Languages provides an indispensable, up-to-date guide of a vast and complex body of Arthurian material, and to recent research and criticism.
Théodore-Claude-Henri Hersart de La Villemarqué (1815-1895) et le Barzaz-Breiz (1839-1845-1867)
La biographie détaillée de l'auteur du Barzaz-Breiz n'avait pas, jusqu'à présent, été traitée en rapport étroit avec toute son œuvre. Elle se rattache à des périodes différentes de la littérature bretonne du XIXe siècle, et projette sur elle une vive lumière. L'œuvre de La Villemarqué a son point de départ dans le mouvement d'idées qui a remué la jeunesse française à l'époque romantique, comprise entre 1830 et 1845. Elle s'explique par le "dépaysement" de l'auteur, par le milieu dans lequel il évolua, à Paris, entre sa dix-neuvième et sa trentième année. Tout ce qu'il écrivit par la suite, est presque invariablement marqué par des préoccupations du même genre...
Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation
This book offers a fresh and timely 'European' perspective on Wales and Welshness. Uncovering rare travel texts in French and German from 1780 to now it provides a valuable case-study of a culture that is often minoritized, and demonstrates the value of multilingual research and a transnational approach.
Barzaz Breiz 1846
"Barzaz Breiz 1846" de Theodore Hersart de La Villemarque. Theodore Hersart de La Villemarque, philologue francais (1815-1895)."
Déodat de Séverac
Dat de Srac (1872-1921) is best known for his piano music but his compositions included orchestral and vocal works, including opera, cantata and incidental music. Claude Debussy described Srac's music as "exquisite and rich with ideas." The early works were influenced by Impressionist harmonies, church modes, cyclic techniques, folk-like melodies and Andalusian motives. Srac's style changed dramatically in 1907 when he left Paris and began to include Catalan elements in his compositions - a transition that has hitherto gone unrecognized. Robert Waters provides a much-needed study of the life and works of Srac, focusing on the composer's regionalist philosophy. Srac's engagement with folk mus...
The Antiquarians of the Nation
In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's nineteenth-century archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national’ (Catalan) cultural revival.
