The spoken word : oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850

The spoken word oral culture in Britain, 1500-1850

Human beings have developed a superabundance of ways of communicating with each other. Some, such as writing, are several millennia old. This book focuses on the relationship between speech and writing both within a single language, Welsh, and between two languages, Welsh and English. It demonstrate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fox, Adam, 1964- editor (editor), Woolf, D. R. (Daniel R.), editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, England ; New York, New York : Manchester University Press 2003
2018, 2002.
Colección:Politics, culture, and society in early modern Britain.
Materias:
Oral tradition > Great Britain.
Literature and folklore > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Languages.
Great Britain > Social life and customs.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427405806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Notes on contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Language, literacy and aspects of identity in early modern Wales
  • 3 The pulpit and the pen
  • 4 Speaking of history
  • 5 Vagabonds and minstrels in sixteenth-century Wales
  • 6 Reformed folklore?
  • 7 The genealogical histories of Gaelic Scotland
  • 8 Constructing oral tradition
  • 9 Things said or sung a thousand times'
  • Index

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