- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Chapter:
- (p.20) (p.21) I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Source:
- Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song
- Author(s):
Mary-Ann Constantine
Gerald Porter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter discusses the broken forms of fragments and Romanticism. The Ossian fragments, which can be found in the poems of ‘Ossian’, are first examined. Most of the discussion focuses on these poems, such as the inclusion of bards and centaurs. The concept of the literary fragment is discussed, as well as singing the poems of ‘Ossian’ while at work.
Keywords: bards, centaurs, Romanticism, Ossian fragments, poems of Ossian, literary fragments
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Text I
- Introduction
- Text II
- I Centaur-songs: Romanticism and broken forms
- Text III
- 2 Singing the unspeakable
- Text IV
- 3 ‘God was in France all Friday’: incoherence from the inside
- Text V
- 4 Sea-changes: minimal texts as regenerative forms
- Text VI
- 5 Forgetting as in(ter)vention: memory and context in very short songs
- Text VII*
- 6 Beating time: resistance and the subaltern voice in prison work songs
- Text VIII
- 7 Fragments and fringes: the view from the centre
- Text IX*
- 8 The intertextuality of the song fragment
- Text X*
- Conclusion
- Text XI
- Intertexts: contexts
- Works cited
- Index of songs
- General index
