#  CELTIC 188. Songs of the Highlander 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2021 

 

 

 

 An introduction to Scottish Gaelic song-poetry of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, this course explores poets’ preoccupations and creative impulses in a time of regular conflict and drastic sociopolitical change. Critical issues to be considered include, but are not limited to, the role(s) of the poet in society, tradition and innovation, orality, and intertextuality. All texts are available in English translation.