04124nam 2200697 a 450 991045137050332120210921001757.01-281-29873-597866112987391-84714-301-6(CKB)1000000000411320(EBL)436477(OCoLC)229447780(SSID)ssj0000233806(PQKBManifestationID)11220119(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233806(PQKBWorkID)10233880(PQKB)10790435(MiAaPQ)EBC436477(Au-PeEL)EBL436477(CaPaEBR)ebr10224685(CaONFJC)MIL129873(OCoLC)893334208(EXLCZ)99100000000041132020040524d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe reception of Ossian in Europe[electronic resource] /edited by Howard GaskillLondon ;New York Thoemmes Continuum20041 online resource (521 p.)The Athlone critical traditions series ;v. 5Description based upon print version of record.1-84714-600-7 0-8264-6135-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-439) and index.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 Ossian7 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 Revisited17 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; IndexThe 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 OssianAthlone critical traditions series ;v. 5.Literary forgeries and mystificationsHistory18th centuryEuropean literatureScottish influencesMythology, Celtic, in literatureCelts in literatureElectronic books.Literary forgeries and mystificationsHistoryEuropean literatureScottish influences.Mythology, Celtic, in literature.Celts in literature.821/.6Gaskill Howard1031627MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451370503321The reception of Ossian in Europe2449094UNINA