The Literature of Wales (Pocket Guides) - Softcover

Johnston, Dafydd R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786830213 ISBN 13: 9781786830210

Verlag: University of Wales Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

<div>&#160;</div><div><i>The Literature of Wales</i> provides a concise and informative guide to Welsh literature from the earliest surviving poetry of Taliesin and Aneirin in the sixth century&#8212;the oldest attested vernacular literature in Europe.&#160;<br> &#160;</div>The book traces the flowering of medieval Welsh literature and the developments of the Renaissance period in Wales up to the Welsh literary revival of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which also saw the rapid burgeoning of &#39;Anglo-Welsh&#39; writing - literature in English written out of a Welsh background. It concludes by surveying the contemporary situation in the literatures of both languages.&#160;<br><br> Dafydd Johnston here gives a balanced critical assessment relating the literature to its historical background. Numerous extracts translated from Welsh and quotations in English give the general reader a taste of the richness of Welsh literature.

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<div></div>Professor <b>Dafydd Johnston </b>is&#160;Head of the Department of Welsh at University of Wales Swansea.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786830213
• ISBN 13: 9781786830210
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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