dc.contributor.author | Yose, Joseph | |
dc.contributor.author | Kenna, Ralph | |
dc.contributor.author | Mac Carron, Pádraig | |
dc.contributor.author | Platini, Thierry | |
dc.contributor.author | Tonra, Justin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-10-25T10:50:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-10-21 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Yose, Joseph; Kenna, Ralph; Pádraig Mac Carron; Platini, Thierry; Tonra, Justin (2016), A Networks-Science Investigation into the Epic Poems of Ossian, Advances in Complex Systems, 0(0), 1650008. doi: doi:10.1142/S0219525916500089 | en_IE |
dc.identifier.issn | 1793-6802 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10379/6101 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_IE |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the EU FP7 Projects No. 269139,
“Dynamics and Cooperative Phenomena in Complex Physical and Biological Media,” No.
295302, “Statistical Physics in Diverse Realizations” and No. 612707, “Dynamics of and
in Complex Systems,” and by the Doctoral College for the Statistical Physics of Complex
Systems, Leipzig-Lorraine-Lviv-Coventry, Franco-German University. PMC is supported
by a European Research Council (No. 295663) Advanced Investigator grant to R.I.M.
Dunbar. | en_IE |
dc.format | application/pdf | en_IE |
dc.language.iso | en | en_IE |
dc.publisher | WorldScientific Open Access | en_IE |
dc.relation.ispartof | Advances In Complex Systems | en |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/ | |
dc.subject | Ossian | en_IE |
dc.subject | Networks | en_IE |
dc.subject | James Macpherson | en_IE |
dc.subject | Literature | en_IE |
dc.subject | Digital humanities | en_IE |
dc.subject | Intertextuality | en_IE |
dc.subject | Network science | en_IE |
dc.subject | Network analysis | en_IE |
dc.title | A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of Ossian | en_IE |
dc.type | Article | en_IE |
dc.date.updated | 2016-08-22T08:16:19Z | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1142/S0219525916500089 | |
dc.local.publishedsource | http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219525916500089 | en_IE |
dc.description.peer-reviewed | peer-reviewed | |
dc.contributor.funder | |~| | |
dc.description.embargo | 2017-10-21 | |
dc.internal.rssid | 11396964 | |
dc.local.contact | Justin Tonra, Room 303, Tower 1, English, School Of Humanities, Nui Galway. 2566 Email: justin.tonra@nuigalway.ie | |
dc.local.copyrightchecked | Yes | |
dc.local.version | ACCEPTED | |
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