Julie Henigan

Literacy and Orality in Eighteenth-Century Irish Song

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781848933422
• ISBN-10: 1848933428
• Artikelnr.: 43750617

Autorenporträt

Julie Henigan

Inhaltsangabe

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