James Macpherson's Ossian Poems, Oral Traditions, and the Invention of Voice

Mulholland, James

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“…Euroopa, sealhulgas Eesti folkloristikas on rahvaluulehuvi märkimisväärseks alguseks peetud James Macphersoni "Ossiani laule" (1760-1765). Väidetavalt põhines see rahvaluulel ning osutus oma ajastu kirjandusturul menukaks (Mulholland 2009). Ka Herderi rahvalaulude kogus ei eristu selgepiiriliselt autorilooming rahvaluulest, pigem on tegemist tänapäeva mõistes töötlustega (Paškevica 2016: 59).…”

Section: Rahvaluule Kirjanduses -Küsimus Rahvaluule Suulisusestunclassified

Suulisus kirjakultuuri ajajärgul

Jaago¹

2018

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Suulisuse ja kirjalikkuse teema folkloristikas on mitmetasandiline ja jätkuvalt aktuaalne. Ühelt poolt on tegemist teoreetilise kontseptsiooniga, kuna ajalooliselt on suulisus üks rahvaluule määratlemise keskseid tunnuseid. Samas on suur osa suulisest pärimusest kättesaadav üleskirjutuste kaudu. See seob suulise pärimuse kirjakultuuriga: mitte ainult jäädvustusviisi tõttu, vaid eriti tekstiarhiivi korrastamise, süstematiseerimise ja publitseerimise kaudu. Teisalt on tegemist uurimispraktiliste küsimustega: mil määral on vaja suulise pärimuse uurimises arvestada selle suulisust?; mil määral ja milliste rahvaluuleliikide puhul ei ole suulisus rahvaluule määravaks tunnuseks ja kuidas see mõjutab folkloristliku teooria ning teadusajaloo mõistmist?; milles ilmnevad teoreetiliste ja uurimispraktiliste aspektide seosed ja lahknevused? Artiklis keskendutakse neile teemadele eesti folkloristika näitel.

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Suulisus kirjakultuuri ajajärgul

Jaago¹

2018

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“…Against this background of military defeat and cultural attenuation, the first fragments of a Scottish epic appeared. Macpherson's volume, Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected accompanied him on his military campaigns, while Thomas Jefferson stated that Ossian was "the greatest poet that has ever existed" [13,33,34]. Ossianic themes and figures featured in the works of painters such as Abildgaard, Gérard, Girodet, Ingres, Kauffmann, Krafft and Runge.…”

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“…Compositions by Brahms, Mendelssohn, and Schubert were also influenced by the work. Politicians and public figures reacted enthusiastically: Napoleon kept a copy in the portable library that accompanied him on his military campaigns, while Thomas Jefferson stated that Ossian was "the greatest poet that has ever existed" [13,33,34]. Ossianic themes and figures featured in the works of painters such as Abildgaard, Gérard, Girodet, Ingres, Kauffmann, Krafft and Runge.…”

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“…Now recognised as one of "the most important and influential works ever to have emerged" [5] from Britain or Ireland, Ossian was also a profoundly significant work in its time, influential in the subsequent development of romantic nationalism in Europe. However, questions about its authenticity provoked one of the best-known controversies in literary history, consequences of which are still to be found in Ossianic studies today [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Revisionist scholarship since the 1990s brought the controversial episode under academic scrutiny once again and the topic has undergone something of a renaissance in the intervening years [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

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“…However, questions about its authenticity provoked one of the best-known controversies in literary history, consequences of which are still to be found in Ossianic studies today [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. Revisionist scholarship since the 1990s brought the controversial episode under academic scrutiny once again and the topic has undergone something of a renaissance in the intervening years [5,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Here we present a fresh investigation into Macpherson's famous works, based upon a new quantitative approach [30].…”

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A Networks-Science Investigation Into the Epic Poems of Ossian

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In 1760 James Macpherson published the first volume of a series of epic poems which he claimed to have translated into English from ancient Scottish-Gaelic sources. The poems, which purported to have been composed by a third-century bard named Ossian, quickly achieved wide international acclaim. They invited comparisons with major works of the epic tradition, including Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and effected a profound influence on the emergent Romantic period in literature and the arts. However, the work also provoked one of the most famous literary controversies of all time, colouring the reception of the poetry to this day. The authenticity of the poems was questioned by some scholars, while others protested that they misappropriated material from Irish mythological sources. Recent years have seen a growing critical interest in Ossian, initiated by revisionist and counter-revisionist scholarship and by the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the first collected edition of the poems in 1765. Here we investigate Ossian from a networks-science point of view. We compare the connectivity structures underlying the societies described in the Ossianic narratives with those of ancient Greek and Irish sources. Despite attempts, from the outset, to position Ossian alongside the Homeric epics and to distance it from Irish sources, our results indicate significant network-structural differences between Macpherson's text and those of Homer. They also show a strong similarity between Ossianic networks and those of the narratives known as Acallam na Senórach (Colloquy of the Ancients) from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

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James Macpherson's Ossian Poems, Oral Traditions, and the Invention of Voice

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Suulisus kirjakultuuri ajajärgul

Suulisus kirjakultuuri ajajärgul

A Networks-Science Investigation Into the Epic Poems of Ossian

Travels in Space and Time: Progress, War, and the Historical Mobilities of Scotland’s Enlightenment

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