CiNii 図書 - The role of the poet in early societies

Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports theruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knowshow to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic,early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.

The poetic function
the primal situation - poetry and patronage
Early Irish culture
Scottish Gaelic culture
other early Western European cultures - Welsh, Norse, Old English
the notion of wisdom
wisdom genres and types of literature
primal poetry and the modern audience.

巻冊次: :pbk ISBN 9780859913478

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This study draws on a wide range of texts - early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English -to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.

The poetic function
the primal situation - poetry and patronage
Early Irish culture
Scottish Gaelic culture
other early Western European cultures - Welsh, Norse, Old English
the notion of wisdom
wisdom genres and types of literature
primal poetry and the modern audience.

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