Overview

James Macpherson's ""poems of Ossian"", first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as ""forgeries"", nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from such figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and Mendelssohn. This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of the poems, their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and of ""Ossian"".

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Author:   Dafydd Moore
Publisher:   Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Imprint:   Scottish Literature International
Volume:   4
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781908980199

ISBN 10:   1908980192
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 February 2017
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface Biographical Note on James Macpherson Introduction 1. The Correspondence of James Macpherson (Paul deGategno) 2. Ossian and the Gaelic World (Lesa Ni Mhunghaile) 3. Ossian and the State of Translation in the Scottish Enlightenment( Gauti Kristmannsson) 4. Nostalgic Ossian and the Transcreation of the Scottish Nation (Cordula Lemke) 5. Landscape and the Sense of Place in the Poems of Ossian (Sebastian Mitchell) 6. Ossian's Impact on the Discovery of Ancient Scandinavian Literature (Robert W Rix) 7. The Significance of James Macpherson's Ossian for Visual Artists (Murdo Macdonald) 8. Macpherson's Iliad and the Logic of Literary Primitivism (Dafydd Moore) 9. Principles, Prejudices and the Politics of James Macpherson's Historical Writing (Robert W. Jones) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors

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This collection of essays sheds important new light on a uniquely experimental body of poetry that continues to bind together a complex of dislocations, re-mediations, transcreations, and, yes, translations: in the vagaries of language and on the surfaces of the page, the canvas, and the landscape. -- Eric Gidal, University of Iowa * Translation and Literature 26/3 * Ossian has been in need of a companion for as long as he has been telling the tales of other times. Thanks to Dafydd Moore, he now has a very congenial one: slim, engaging and wonderfully sympathetic. -- Fiona Stafford, Somerville College, Oxford * Scottish Literary Review 9/2 * Moore's volume has an appropriate sense of itself as a canon-making device, covering many of the key aspects of Macpherson's work, summarizing the extant critical debate while introducing new developments. It will make a valuable teaching aid, while there is also plenty here to exercise experts in the field. -- Gerard Lee McKeever, University of Glasgow * The BARS Review *

This collection of essays sheds important new light on a uniquely experimental body of poetry that continues to bind together a complex of dislocations, re-mediations, transcreations, and, yes, translations: in the vagaries of language and on the surfaces of the page, the canvas, and the landscape. -- Eric Gidal, University of Iowa * Translation and Literature 26/3 * Ossian has been in need of a companion for as long as he has been telling the tales of other times. Thanks to Dafydd Moore, he now has a very congenial one: slim, engaging and wonderfully sympathetic. -- Fiona Stafford, Somerville College, Oxford * Scottish Literary Review 9/2 *

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Dafydd Moore is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature at the University of Plymouth.

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