Book Description
This pioneering work shows how Celtic cultures understood the place of human beings in their natural environment in ways fundamentally different from our own, exploring the unique unfolding of landscapes in early Irish and Welsh texts, including Tain Bo Cuailgne, The Voyage of Bran, the Gododdin and the mythological Taliesin poem on the Battle of the Trees.
Landscape Perception in Early Celtic Literature SYNOPSIS
Benozzo formulates a theory of landscape through a phenomenological analysis of landscape perception in early Irish and Welsh literature. Interested in the connection between layers of landscape and layers of thought, that is, in the relationship between the external world and the word, he explores how structures of physical space can affect narrative structures and conversely how narrative structures can affect the perception of landscape. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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