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Author : Geraint Evans,Helen Fulton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107106765
This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.
Author : Raymond Garlick
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015028708363
Author : Gwyn Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Wales
ISBN : UCSC:32106010558176
Author : Oliver James Padel
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780708326589
Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the Middle Ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum dating from the ninth century. By the twelfth century, Arthur was a renowned figure wherever Welsh and her sister languages were spoken. O. J. Padel now provides an overall survey of medieval Welsh literary references to Arthur and emphasizes the importance of understanding the character and purpose of the texts in which allusions to Arthur occur. Texts from different genres are considered together, and shed new light on the use that different authors make of the multifaceted figure of Arthur – from the folk legend associated with magic and animals to the literary hero, soldier and defender of country and faith. Other figures associated with Arthur, such as Cai, Bedwyr and Gwenhwyfar, are also discussed here.
Author : Meic Stephens
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015011528562
For a small land, Wales has produced an extraordinarily large and accomplished body of literature. The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales provides an excellent guide to Welsh literary heritage, ranging from the Druids and the days of King Arthur to the present-day flowering of Welsh national consciousness. In a little less than 3,000 entries, it captures the complexities of Welsh poetic art, the lives and achievements of its greatest writers, the myths, legends and colorful folktales, and the events and movements that have informed its history. A wealth of detailed information, the Companion is indispensable for anyone interested in the literature and culture of Wales.
Author : S. Rhian Reynolds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015063669942
A Bibliography of Welsh Literature in English Translation is a groundbreaking volume that maps for the first time the translation history of Wales's two languages. This is also the first listing of Welsh-English literary translations and should be an indispensable tool not only for scholars but also for lay readers and for students of Celtic and Welsh literatures. As a resource that opens up for the first time one of the richest fields of translation in the British context, this bibliography is also a pioneering Welsh contribution to the burgeoning academic field of translation studies. The Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW), directed by Professor M. Wynn Thomas, received a prestitgious research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board for a one-year project in 2001 that was to culminate in a web-based database, an international conference and this published volume. S. Rhian Reynolds was employed as the postdoctoral research officer for the project, which grew far beyond the expected lifespan due to the wealth and quantity of the material uncovered. Translation practice has encompased the whole wealth of Welsh-language literature and among the thousands of translations recorded here are the acknowledged classics of European culture---The Mabinogion, the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym, the hymns of William Williams Pantycelyn and the plays, fiction, and political writings of Saunders Lewis. Ever since Welsh-English translation was first instigated in the eighteenth century it has provided an invaluable interface between Wales and the wider world (even non-anglophone cultures usually discover Welsh-language literature through the medium of English), between Wales and the other countries of the British Isles and (most importantly of all, perhaps) between the two cultures of Wales itself.
Author : William Forbes Skene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Tales
ISBN : OXFORD:555064164
Author : Janet Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783160204
The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales may be intrigued by the existence of Welsh and will want to find out how a language which has, for at least fifteen hundred years, been the closest neighbour of English, enjoys such vibrancy, bearing in mind that English has obliterated languages thousands of miles from the coasts of England. This book offers a broad historical survey of Welsh-language culture from sixth-century heroic poetry to television and pop culture in the early twenty-first century. The public status of the language is considered and the role of Welsh is compared with the roles of other of the non-state languages of Europe. This new edition of The Welsh Language offers a full assessment of the implications of the linguistic statistics produced by the 2011 Census. The volume contains maps and plans showing the demographic and geographic spread of Welsh over the ages, charts examining the links between words in Welsh and those in other Indo-European languages, and illustrations of key publications and figures in the history of the language. It concludes with brief guides to the pronunciation, the dialects and the grammar of Welsh.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786830227
Author : Thomas Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Welsh literature
ISBN : OCLC:313206083
Author : Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman,Gwilym Rees Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Welsh literature
ISBN : OCLC:27657951
Author : Rachel Bromwich,Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman,Brynley F. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000054698380
Publisher description: This volume is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the Arthurian legend in Medieval Welsh literature. Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources.
Author : Gwyn Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015028924317
Author : William Jenkyn Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UOM:39015085432998
Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199588657
Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.