Irish Storyteller
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (510 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 185182622X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 633 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Contextualized in Irish history and on the wider European scene, this huge book explores the testimony of early antiquarians, accounts of meetings with storytellers by 18th- or 19th-century travelers, representations of acts of elite storytelling in ancient Irish literature or of popular ones in oral tradition itself and in fiction in English - attention is given to the works of Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, the Banim brothers and Griffin, Carleton, Lover, Le Fanu, Somerville and Ross, Yeats, Synge, George Moore and Joyce, and some more recent authors. Invariables, changes, ruptures and the effect of conflicting attitudes and ideologies are identified. Themes and formal characteristics of different kinds of oral narratives are examined.. Another section tries to establish what is known of actual storytelling in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th: the tellers' training, their techniques and conception of tradition, their status, the etiquette of performance and the role of the audience. The evolution of the aims and methods of folklorists, from the Romantic Age to the institutionalization of collecting and to modern ethnographic projects, and the links between definitions of folklore and cultural nationalism are investigated, as are the complex relationships between storytelling, history and truth and the concepts of Irishness and tradition. Supported by documents, many of which were not readily available or have never been published before, this b
"Worth the price: a life's worth of lore" according to John L Murphy. Swiss professor Zimmerman mentions in passing that he has studied Irish storytelling for over half a century. Along with his collection "Songs of Irish Rebellion," this hefty but never less than readable book sums up his life's work. I took it down last night to look up a couple of mentions about ghost tales and found myself reading nearly a hundred pages, all about the evolution of storytelling in the 19th and 20th centuries. The pages flew by as if I was reading . Five Stars john francis mccarthy Very interesting. Lots of esoteric information. Can't wait to read it through.