How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature
How Celtic Culture Invented Southern Literature

Author: Cantrell, James P.

Publisher: Pelican Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9781455605989

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Examines Southern writers in a Celtic context. This debut book of literary criticism challenges the common perception that the culture of white Southerners springs from English, or Anglo-Norman, roots. Mr. Cantrell presents persuasive historical and literary evidence that it was the South's Celtic, or Scots-Irish, settlers who had the biggest influence on Southern culture, and that their vibrant spirit is still felt today. It discusses the work of William Gilmore Simms, Ellen Glasgow, the Agrarians, William Faulkner, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O'Connor, Pat Conroy, and James Everett Kibler.

Gablánach in Scélaigecht
Gablánach in Scélaigecht

Author: Sarah Sheehan

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846823862

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This book celebrates the career of Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Celtic medievalists. Dooley's colleagues at the University of Toronto, her former doctoral students, and some of the most prominent scholars in medieval Celtic studies honor her work with 16 original essays reflecting Dooley's teaching and interests: early Irish and Welsh literature and history, literary theory, and feminist approaches to medieval Celtic literature. Chapters include: studies of major figures in early Irish and Welsh folklore, including Gwydion, Nes, Deirdriu, Luaine, Medb * studies of major texts, including the Auraicept na nEces, the Acallam na Senorach, and the Tain Bo Cuailnge * women, blood, and soul-friendship * how Irish was medieval Ceredigion? * the 'Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan' * the Irish history of the 'Third Troy' and medieval writing of history * the monstrous hero * the O'Donohue lives of the Salamancan Codex.

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies

Author: Huw Pryce

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-02-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780521570398

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This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.