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Dissonant neighbours: narrative progress in early Welsh and English poetry

Callander, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0177-7789 2019. Dissonant neighbours: narrative progress in early Welsh and English poetry. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

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Abstract

Dissonant Neighbours compares early Welsh and English poetry up to c.1250, investigating why these two neighbouring literatures describe similar events in markedly different ways. Medieval Welsh and English texts were subject to many of the same Latin and French influences, and we see this in the stories told in the poetic traditions; comparing and contrasting the different approaches of Welsh and English poetry offers insight to the core narrative trends of both. How, where and why did early Welsh and English poets deploy narrative? These are key questions that this book seeks to answer, providing a groundbreaking new study which treats the Welsh and English poetry in an equal and balanced manner. It contributes to ongoing debates concerning multilingualism and the relationship between Welsh and English literature, dividing into four comparative chapters that contrast a wide range of early Welsh and English material, yielding incisive new readings in poetic tradition.

Item Type: Book
Book Type: Authored Book
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Welsh
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9781786833983
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 07:58
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/126314

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