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"Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity" explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gibson, Marion, 1970- (Editor ), Trower, Shelley, 1975- (Editor ), Tregidga, Garry (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Temas:
Celts in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
Druids and druidism in literature.
Literature and myth.
Celts > Folklore.
Language and culture > Great Britain.
British literature > History and criticism.
Littérature britannique > Histoire et critique.
Mysticisme dans la littérature.
Celtes > Folklore.
Littérature et mythe.
Druides dans la littérature.
Langage et culture > Grande-Bretagne.
Celtes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
British literature
Celts
Celts in literature
Druids and druidism in literature
Language and culture
Literature and myth
Mysticism in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Folklore
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mysticism, myth and Celtic identity / Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower and Garry Tregidga
  • Part I. Prehistory and paganism ; Druids in modern British fiction : the unacceptable face of Celticism / Ronald Hutton
  • Old deities, new worlds : the return of the gods in fiction / Marion Gibson
  • Uncovering the deepest layers of the British past, 1850- 1914 / Chris Manias
  • Dreams of Celtic kings : Victorian prehistory and the notion of 'Celtic' / Rebecca Welshman
  • 'The truth against the world' : spectrality and the mystic past in late twentieth-century Cornwall / Carl Phillips
  • Part II. Gothic, romance and landscape ; 'Confined to a living grave' : Welsh poetry, Gothic and the French Revolution / Elizabeth Edwards
  • Fingal in the West Country : the poems of Ossian and cultural myth-making in the South West of England, 1770- 1800 / Dafydd Moore
  • Geological folklore : Robert Hunt and the industrial, aesthetic and racial composition of 'Celtic' Cornwall / Shelley Trower
  • Celtic cultural politics : monuments and mortality in nineteenth-century Brittany / Maura Coughlin
  • Spirited away : Highland touring, 'Toctor Shonson' and the hauntings of Celtism / Peter Merchant
  • Part III. Memory, myth and politics ; Cornish crusaders and Barbary captives : returns and transformations / Jo Esra
  • Re-enacting Scottish history in Europe / David Hesse
  • Reconstructing West Wales : Welsh representations and cultural memories of Cornwall / Garry Tregidga
  • From apocalyptic paranoia to the mythic nation : political extremity and myths of origin in the neo-fascist milieu / Andrew Fergus Wilson
  • Albion's spectre : building the new Jerusalem / Jason Whittaker.

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