The Poems of Ossianby James MacphersonOssian purports to be a translation of an epic cycle of Scottish poems from the early dark ages. Ossian, a blind bard, sings of the life and battles of Fingal, a Scotch warrior. Ossian caused a sensation when it was published on the cusp of the era of revolutions, and had a massive cultural impact during the 18th and 19th centuries. Napolean carried a copy into battle; Goethe translated parts of it; the city of Selma, Alabama was named a...

First published in 1983, The Feral Classroom argues that the experience of schooling needs to be understood in terms of peer interaction in the classroom. Students’ interaction mediates the significance of the curriculum and teacher, and is, in its own right, a major agent of socialisation.The study reported in the book was conducted in an Australian state high school. It employs ethnographic techniques focused on students’ accounts of relations and activities with classmates. Conc...

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Tradotto in italiano daMelchiorre cesarottiPoesie di OssianDal libro: Di Cola ucciso, e me fuor di me stessaA Selama condusse. A me rivolseVoci d'amor; ma di tristezza ingombroEra 'l mio spirto; de' miei padri i scudiIo riconobbi, e di Trutillo il brando:Vidi l'arme dei morti, e sulle guanceStavami 'l pianto. Allor giungesti, o Nato,Giungesti e fuggì via Cairba oscuro,Com'ombra fugge al mattutino raggio...

In questo volume erano stati raccolti antichi canti gaelici da lui tradotti, attribuendoli ad un leggendario cantore bardo chiamato Ossian, subito ridefinito come "L'Omero del Nord", cupo e tenebroso.Si tratta perciò di un abile falso letterario che rielabora antichi canti popolari, inserendoli in una struttura inedita ed inusuale.Il successo dell'opera indusse l'autore a pubblicare altri volumi, fino alla versione definitiva del 1773, composta da ventidue poemi.L'oper...

La lettura de I Poemi di Ossian implica delle rinunce: per entrare nel mondo di Ossian è necessario scrollarsi di dosso ogni accademismo, liberarsi dagli orpelli della cultura convenzionale perché solo così, semplificati nella mente e nello spirito, si potranno comprendere i messaggi che l’opera comunica; messaggi di un’etica basilare che inducono a riflettere sullo scopo dell’esistenza terrena e sui valori umani più essenziali.Questa nuova traduzione de I Poemi di Ossi...

This study examines the relationship between Enlightenment and romance through the work of James Macpherson and in particular his The Poems of Ossian. By re-reading Macpherson's work in ways not restricted by the sterile and by now largely settled debates over authenticity, Moore establishes Ossian's credentials to be considered as romance, in its manner of construction, its represented sensibility, and in its engagement with the potentialities and limitations of eighteenth-century discour...

This volume, purporting to be a sequel to QUEBEC PAST AND PRESENT, published in 1876, is intended to complete the history of the city. New and interesting details will be found in these pages, about the locality, where Samuel de Champlain located his settlement in 1608, together with a rapid glance at incidents, sights, objects, edifices, city gates and other improvements, both ancient and modern, which an antiquarian's ramble round the streets, squares, promenades, monuments, public and priv...

The major new memoir from Sir Alex Ferguson, filled with never-before-seen photographs and memorabilia from his private archives.Twenty-one games. One extraordinary life.Sir Alex Ferguson is widely regarded as the greatest football manager of all time. In this intimate and heartfelt memoir, he tells the unique stories of twenty-one defining matches in his career, revealing fresh insights into his incredible journey from working-class Glasgo...

'Britain's No.1 crime writer' Mirror* * * * *A CASE THAT WON'T DIEJohn Rebus can't close the door on the death of glamorous socialite Maria Turquand. Brutally murdered in her hotel room forty years ago, her killer has never been found.Meanwhile, Edinburgh's dark heart is up for grabs. Young pretender Darryl Christie may have staked his claim on the city's underworld - but has criminal mastermind a...

And in Edinburgh of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you... ''That sort of thing' is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end. Detective Sergeant John Rebus, smoking and drinking too much, his own young daughter spirited away south by his disenchanted wife, is one of many policemen hunting the killer.And then the messages begin to arrive: knotted st...

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY LIKE NO OTHER: SIR ALEX REFLECTS ON HIS RECORD-BREAKING CAREER AT ABERDEEN AND MANCHESTER UNITED'Sometimes defeats are the best outcomes. To react to adversity is a quality. Even in your lowest periods you are showing strength . . .'For over two decades Sir Alex Ferguson dominated the Premier League, overseeing a sustained and unparalleled period of success with Manchester United. He was a visionary, able to move with the times and...