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Cornish Literature (Hardcover)
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Cornish Literature (Hardcover)
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Comparative study of Cornish literature, placing it in a wider
context and looking in detail at major works. `This admirable
survey...compact, smoothly written, easy to read and digest, yet
indicative throughout of profound scholarship and an obvious
mastery of the field, Cornish Literatureprovides an enduring guide
to this smallbut significant genre. The three Middle Cornish plays
- in English titles, The Creation of the World, Life of St
Meriasekand the tripartite Ordinalia - accompany a long Pascon agan
Arluth, a verse `Passion of our Lord' and the odd fragment... His
last chapter, `Survivals and Revivals', is a fair but detached
account covering a long (1611 to 1992) phase that will also
interest sociologists. The chief strength of his book is the
textual analysis of the main plays, placing them alongside medieval
English drama as well as the larger European manifestation of
religious drama and the complex question of all their biblical and
quasi-biblical sources. There is auseful bibliography. Modestly
priced, Brian Murdoch's scholarly and attractive guide should
appeal to many beyond medievalist circles; it will not be
superseded for a long time.' THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BRIAN
MURDOCHis head of the Department of German at Stirling University.
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