1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202517203316

Titolo

Best's review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oldwick, NJ, : A.M. Best Co., ©2000-

ISSN

2161-282X

Disciplina

368

Soggetti

Property insurance - United States

Casualty insurance - United States

Life insurance - United States

Health insurance - United States

Insurance, Health

Insurance, Life

Assurance de biens - États-Unis

Assurance-dommages - États-Unis

Assurance-vie - États-Unis

Assurance-maladie - États-Unis

Casualty insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Property insurance

Periodicals.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from home page (viewed July 19, 2000).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785075703321

Titolo

The reception of Ossian in Europe [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Howard Gaskill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Thoemmes Continuum, 2004

ISBN

1-281-29873-5

9786611298739

1-84714-301-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (521 p.)

Collana

The Athlone critical traditions series ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

GaskillHoward

Disciplina

821/.6

Soggetti

Literary forgeries and mystifications - History - 18th century

European literature - Scottish influences

Mythology, Celtic, in literature

Celts in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-439) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations: Primary Ossianic Texts; Timeline of Ossian's European Reception; Introduction: 'Genuine poetry . . . like gold'; 1 The Reception of The Poems of Ossian in England and Scotland; 2 The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland; 3 Ossian in Wales and Brittany; 4 'We know all these poems': The Irish Response to Ossian; 5 Ossian and the Rise of Literary Historicism; 6 Chateaubriand's Ossian

7 The Reception and Reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht8 Goethe's Translation from the Gaelic Ossian; 9 'Menschlichschön' and 'kolossalisch': The Discursive Function of Ossian in Schiller's Poetry and Aesthetics; 10 Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland; 11 Literary, Artistic and Political Resonances of Ossian in the Czech National Revival; 12 Ossian in Hungary; 13 Ossian in Poland; 14 Fingal in Russia; 15 Ossian in Italy: From Cesarotti to the Theatre; 16 From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti: The Making of the Italian Ossianic Tradition Revisited



17 The Suggestiveness of Ossian in Romantic Spain: The Case of Espronceda and García Gutiérrez18 Ossian in Portugal; 19 Ossian in Music; 20 Ossian and Art: Scotland into Europe via Rome; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. This collection of 20 essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, records the ways in which Macpherson's Ossian has been received, translated and published in different areas of Europe. The Ossian poems caused a sensation on their first appearance in the 1760's. Indeed, there is hardly a major Romantic poet on whom they failed to make a significant impression. The essays brought together in this volume explore the reception of Ossian