Up-helly-aa : custom, culture and community in Shetland
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Up-helly-aa : custom, culture and community in Shetland
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A Familiar Compound Ghost explores the relationship between allusion and the uncanny in literature. An unexpected echo or quotation in a new text can be compared to the sudden appearance of a ghost or mysterious double, the reanimation of a corpse, or the discovery of an ancient ruin hidden in a modern city. In this scholarly and suggestive study, Brown identifies moments where this affinity between allusion and the uncanny is used by writers to generate a particular textual charge, where uncanny elements are used to flag patterns of allusion and to point to the haunting presence of an earlier work.
A Familiar Compound Ghost traces the subtle patterns of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys to the underworld. -- .
目次
- The festival of Up-Helly-Aa in the 1990s - the last Tuesday in January, festival, geography and the calender, history and community
- understanding custom - the folklorists, the historians, festivals and theories
- misrule without custom - Lerwick 1625-1800 - "Leir-vik" (Norn. "mud-bay"), morality and culture, smuggling and outsiders, culture without custom
- mischief and misrule and Yule 1800-1872 - the rise of "mischief" as custom, policing the revels, religion and respectability, mischief as misrule
- "Perfectly in custom" - the birth of Up-Helly-Aa 1873-1906 - the turning point, rough and respectable, symbols and ideologies
- 20th-century festival - moral politics and the decline of "Herringopolis" 1906-1970, oil and festival fetish, insiders and outsiders, symbols of gender
- community, custom and history, history and boundaries, community and ideology, calender customs.
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