Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-66465-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution

Focusing on several distinct genres of eighteenth-century Irish song, Henigan demonstrates in each case that the interaction between the elite and vernacular, the written and oral, is pervasive and characteristic of the Irish song tradition to the present day.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henigan, Julie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 Th e Medieval Background 2 Songs of the Dispossessed: Eighteenth-Century Irish Song-Poetry 3 ‘Éirigh i do Sheasamh’: Oral and Literary Aspects of the Irish Lament Tradition 4 ‘For Want of Education’: Th e Songs of the Hedge Schoolmaster 5 The Eighteenth-Century Printed Ballad in Ireland 6 The Eighteenth-Century Irish Ballad and Modern Oral Tradition

Über Autor(innen)

Julie Henigan