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Cornish Literature

by Brian Murdoch
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780859913645
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
  • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
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  • Pages: 184
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 440 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Medieval

This work places Cornish literature - the works of the medieval and Reformation periods and the smaller works of late Cornish, and indeed of the recent revival -into a British, Celtic and European literary context. The Cornish works are evaluated and compared with similar texts in a variety of languages, including medieval Latin, English, French, Breton and German. After an introduction to Cornish as such, full chapters are devoted to the poem of the Passion, to the great mystery cycle of the 'Ordinalia', to the very different later Creation drama, and to the impressive and quite wrongly neglected drama of Saint Meriasek, the sole surviving example in Britain of a non-biblical saint play on a large scale. A final chapter looks at the work of the eighteenth-century antiquarians who struggled to find and preserve what scraps they could of a language that they knew to be dying as a vehicle of social intercourse, and then at the literature which has been and which is still being produced by the revivalists. This is the first full-scale presentation of Cornish writings as literature, and it should be of interest in particular to the medievalist-at-large, and especially anyone interested in medieval drama. All quotations are provided with translations. BRIAN MURDOCH is head of the Department of German at Stirling University. In 1989 he was Visiting Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; he became Litt.D. (Cambridge) in 1992 for publications in modern and medieval Germanic and Celtic languages.

Murdoch, Brian: - BRIAN MURDOCH is Emeritus Professor of German at Stirling University, Scotland. He is the author of many books, including titles for both Camden House and D.S. Brewer.

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