Download or read book Mas o Ma Hunangofiant Meic Stevens Rhan Tri written by Meic Stevens and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dyma gyfrol hunangofiannol olaf Meic Stevens lle mae'n adrodd ei hanes o ganol yr 80au hyd at heddiw. Mae'n son yn ddiflewyn-ar-dafod am ei fywyd personol, am y broses o gyfansoddi rhai o'r caneuon gorau yn yr iaith Gymraeg ac am ffrindiau a cherddorion sydd wedi dylanwadu arno. Cyfrol onest a gafaelgar gan y swynwr o Solfach sydd bellach yn byw yng Nghanada.
Download or read book Longes Mac N Uislenn written by Vernam Hull and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales written by Patrick K. Ford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.
Download or read book The Reader s Handbook of Famous Names in Fiction Allusions References Proverbs Plots Stories and Poems written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature written by Patrick Sims-Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Individual in Celtic Literatures written by Joseph Falaky Nagy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It took Celtic people thousands of years to rise (or fall) from oral tradition to written literature. It has taken the Celtic Studies Association of North America less than a quarter century since its founding in 1976 to begin an annual series of essays. Each will focus on a theme and draw from pres
Download or read book The Origins of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi written by Andrew Breeze and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Origins of the 'Four Branches of the Mabinogi' is one of the most revolutionary books ever published on the literatures of Britain. Its subject is four stories in the collection of Welsh prose tales known as The Mabinogion. These Four Branches of the Mabinogi are the legends of Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed; Branwen, Daughter of Llŷr; Manawydan, Son of Llŷr; and Math, Son of Mathonwy, which have long enjoyed popularity as Wales's most significant contribution to world literature. The Four Branches are tales of love, adventure and magic, but also of rape, adultery, betrayal and attempted murder. Although most scholars agree that the four stories are the work of a single author, there has been no agreement on where and when they were composed. To these questions The Origins of the 'Four Branches of the Mabinogi' offers a startling answer. It has always been assumed that the tales are the work of a male author. However, Andrew Breeze convincingly shows not only that the Four Branches were composed by a female writer, but that she can be identified as Gwenllian, daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan (d. 1137), king of Gwynedd, and wife of Gruffydd ap Rhys (d. 1137), prince of Dyfed. Gwenllian was born at the close of the eleventh century, married Gruffydd when she was in her teens, and for most of her life lived quietly with him near Caio in the hills of Carmarthenshire. Her end was dramatic. In early 1136 she led an attack on the Normans of Kidwelly, was defeated in battle and executed outside the town. Despite this catastrophe, her son Rhys (d.1197) survived to lead resistance to English rule and to maintain Dyfed's independence. Amongst his descendants were Henry VII of England and James VI and I of Scotland and England, so that the line of Princess Gwenllian can be traced down to the modern British royal family. Gwenllian's position within the dynasties of Gwynedd and Dyfed explains why the political and territorial aggrandizement of both territories is, uniquely, a theme of these tales. It also explains the uncommon tact with which conflict between them is described. It means too that the stories give a representation of royal government and decision-making in twelfth-century Wales by one who knew them from inside. Andrew Breeze's sensational analysis of this classic text is published in full in this volume for the first time.
Download or read book The Rise of Romance written by Eugène Vinaver and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welsh King and His Court written by T. M. Charles-Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of 24 papers, collected from a conference on Welsh law held at Greynog in 1993, which focus on the organisation and function of the itinerant medieval Welsh court and the ways in which governmental offices developed from household positions.
Download or read book Welsh made easy written by Arthur Saxon Dennett Smith and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myth in Celtic Literatures written by Joseph Falaky Nagy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of 'myth' has long been an important part of Celtic studies. Are there, in fact, waifs and strays of ancient mythology preserved in medieval Celtic texts? Do myths reflect a prehistoric world-view, history, or literary innovation? And how are old myths refitted, and new myths invented, by writers in medieval and modern times? These are some of the questions compellingly addressed in the studies collected in this issue of the Yearbook, featuring groundbreaking work on: the mythological underpinnings of names in the Welsh Mabinogi; the story of Branwen and the clash between Britain and Ireland; the figure of the 'holy mermaid' in medieval Irish literature; horses, dogs, and King Arthur; and the ideological implications of 'insularity'. Contributors include Phillip Bernhardt-House, Ranke de Vries, Jessica Hemming, Catherine McKenna, and Thomas O'Loughlin.
Download or read book The History of Wales written by William Warrington and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Wales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1786. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book The International Popular Tale and Early Welsh Tradition written by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lectures on the nature, origin, and diffusion of popular tales, with general reflections on the early tales of the Mabinogion.
Download or read book The Learned Tales of Medieval Ireland written by Proinsias Mac Cana and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aspects of the T in written by J. P. Mallory and published by Casemate Academic. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: The account of Cú Chulainn's single-handed defence of Ulster against the assembled armies of Queen Medb of Connacht is recognized as the centrepiece of Irish heroic epic as well as a mine of information about the behaviour and beliefs of early Irish. This text attempts to bring together for the modern reader an account of the historical development of the tale, how it succeeds or fails as literature, and to what extent it is a 'window on the Iron Age'.
Download or read book Illegal Harmonies written by Andrew Ford and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen. What do you hear? We are surrounded by sounds all the time, but we tend not to hear them; our brains are very good at editing what our ears pick up. If we stop for a moment to listen, there they are: the ticking clock, traffic noise, fragments of conversation, a passing plane. These are examples of what the American composer John Cage called “illegal harmony”. In response to the noisiest century in history, modern composers have consistently flown in the face of musical orthodoxy. As technology has changed at an unprecedented rate, so have musical styles – sometimes to the dismay of audiences and critics. In Illegal Harmonies, Andrew Ford charts the course of music in the concert hall and opera house over the last hundred years, linking it to developments in literature, theatre, cinema and the visual arts, and to popular music from Irving Berlin to the Beatles to rap. The result is a stimulating, provocative and informative cultural history. This revised third edition includes a new preface and extended epilogue, bringing the story into the twenty-first century. "Modern audiences need to learn how to listen and Andrew Ford might be just the man to do the teaching." - Australian Financial Review
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre written by Phyllis Hartnoll and published by London ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook for the theatre-goer, this book has an international range and contains information on actors and actresses, theatrical companies and theatre buildings, and dramatists from Sophocles to Pinter. It also covers technical terms, and explains practical and historical aspects of stagecraft.
