The Basque Poetic Tradition
Title | The Basque Poetic Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Gorka Aulestia |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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A study of the literary heritage of the Basque people.
Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country
Title | Improvisational Poetry from the Basque Country PDF eBook |
Author | Gorka Aulestia |
Publisher | Basque |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Aulestia takes a scholarly and in-depth look at the art of the bertsolari. In a fascinating text, the author examines the history of a tradition that is truly unique and completely Basque. He introduces and analyzes the performing styles of great bertsolariak, including Xabier Amuriza and Jon Azpillaga.
Voicing the Moment
Title | Voicing the Moment PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel G. Armistead |
Publisher | Center for Basque Studies Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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Presents contributions of leading scholars to the field of orally improvised poetry. Includes papers on Hispanic and extra-Hispanic improvised poetry as well as papers in which leading practitioners of bertsolaritza studied their own poetic art and its techniques.
Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions
Title | Traditions of Heroic and Epic Poetry: The traditions PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Auty |
Publisher | MHRA |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Epic poetry |
ISBN | 9780900547720 |
Inventing the modern region
Title | Inventing the modern region PDF eBook |
Author | Talitha Ilacqua |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2024-03-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 152616924X |
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France’s process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-‘modern’ province to the ‘modern’ region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.
Linguae Vasconum Primitiae
Title | Linguae Vasconum Primitiae PDF eBook |
Author | Bernat Dechepare |
Publisher | Center for Basque Studies Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
"Modern translation and original Basque version of the first book printed in the Basque language in Baiona in 1545."--Provided by publisher.
The Basque Country
Title | The Basque Country PDF eBook |
Author | Paddy Woodworth |
Publisher | Andrews UK Limited |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2012-01-10 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1908493232 |
The Basque Country is a land of fascinating paradoxes and enigmas. Home to one of Europe's oldest peoples and most mysterious languages, with a living folklore rich in archaic rituals and dances, it also boasts a dynamic post-modern energy, with the reinvention of Bilbao creating a model for the twenty-first-century city of cultural services and information technologies. Hugging the elbow of the Bay of Biscay on both the French and Spanish sides of the Pyrenees, this small territory abounds in big contrasts, ranging from moist green valleys to semi-desert badlands, from snowy sierras to sandy beaches, from harsh industrial landscapes to bucolic beech woods. This often idyllic scenery is the stage for fierce political passions. Almost every aspect of the Basque Country generates passionate disagreement, even its precise location. Spanish and French centralism, often authoritarian and sometimes brutal, has met with resistance for two centuries. Most recently and notoriously ETA, a terrorist group with deep popular support, has engaged in a bloody 45-year conflict. But many Basques consider themselves full French or Spanish citizens, and fear political and linguistic exclusion under Basque nationalist rule.