Browsing by Subject "james macpherson"

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    • A networks-science investigation into the epic poems of ossian 

      YOSE, JOSEPH; KENNA, RALPH; MacCARRON, PÁDRAIG; PLATINI, THIERRY; TONRA, JUSTIN (World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt, 2016-06-01)
      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 ...

    • Carefully Corrected / Mutilated Mess: Ossian's Textual Legacies 

      Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2015)
      Controversies over legitimacy are an essential part of the literary reception and cultural meaning (Mulholland 394) of James Macpherson s Ossian poems. Many revisionist readings of Ossian attempt to preserve the text ...