Constructing nations, reconstructing myth
| Titel: | Constructing nations, reconstructing myth : essays in honour of T. A. Shippey / edited by Andrew Wawn ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Turnhout : Brepols, 2007 |
| Umfang: | XVII, 382 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 24cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Making the Middle Ages ; 9 |
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| ISBN: | 9782503523934 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- List of Illustrations
- p. xi
- Foreword
- p. xiii
- Part 1
- Nations and Nationalism
- James Macpherson's Ossian: Forging Ancient Highland Identity for Scotland
- p. 3
- 'Lord and Protector of the Earth and its Inhabitants': Poetry, Philology, Politics, and Thor the Thunderer in Denmark and Germany, 1751-1864
- p. 27
- Beowulf Editions for the Ancestors: Cultural Genealogy and Power in the Claims of Nineteenth-Century English and American Editors and Translators
- p. 53
- The Forest Writes Back: The Ausbau of Finnish from Peasant Vernacular to Modernity
- p. 71
- English and the Jutland Dialect; Or, The Demise of a Romantic Notion
- p. 97
- Part 2
- Philology and Philologists
- How Elvish were the Alfar?
- p. 111
- The Textual Criticism of Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf
- p. 131
- Some Critics of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi
- p. 155
- Samuel Ferguson's 'Death-Song' (1833): An Anglo-Irish Response to Krakumal
- p. 167
- A Bit of a Lad: J. B. B. Roquefort (1777-1834)
- p. 193
- The Grimms, The Kirk-Grims, and Sabine Baring-Gould
- p. 215
- Worter, Sachen, und Wahrheit: Philology and the Tree of Language in Tolkien
- p. 243
- Part 3
- Myths and Mythology
- Spouting Poetry: Cognitive Metaphor and Conceptual Blending in the Old Norse Myth of the Poetic Mead
- p. 277
- Women's Work and Women's Magic as Literary Motifs in Icelandic Sagas
- p. 301
- What is 'Middle-Earth'? Origin, Evolution, and Mythic Function
- p. 319
- Jacob Grimm and the Reconstruction of Estonian Religion and Mythology
- p. 343
- Tom Shippey: Academic Publications
- p. 357
- Index
- p. 367
- List of Contributors
- p. 381
