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I like corgis!
Now famous for being the preferred pet of Queen Elizabeth II, the cute, short-legged corgi was originally bred to herd cattle, sheep, and horses. Readers will learn all about the corgi breed and its needs with the help of author Linda Bozzo and the American Canine Association. Simple, informative text and full-color photographs will show readers what to feed their dog, how to groom it, and how to keep it healthy through exercise and play. A Note to Parents addresses the importance of neutering and spaying, microchipping, checking to see if a dog license is required, and adopting from a shelter or rescue group.
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Darogan
This book focuses on the prophetic poetry and prose of the earliest Welsh-language manuscripts, exploring the complexity of a literary tradition simultaneously apocalyptic, eschatological, multilingual, nationalist and interethnic.
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The four branches of the Mabinogi
\"The Mabinogi, a classic of Welsh literature, is a suite of four stories in Middle Welsh. They were composed, or at least put into their current form--it is hard to say which, because we do not know who the author was--in the late eleventh or early twelfth century, and they survive in two fourteenth-century manuscripts and two thirteenth-century fragments. Set in a primal past, the Mabinogi bridges many genres; it is part pre-Christian myth, part fairytale, part guide to how nobles should act, and part dramatization of political and social issues. The Mabinogi were not read in English until 1838 49; since then they have been translated several times. This new translation, specially commissioned by Broadview Press, is by a Celtic Studies scholar working with a contemporary American playwright; its primary purpose is to make the text accessible and engaging for twenty-first-century readers (and especially, undergraduate students). One significant way in which that philosophy is expressed is in the treatment of Welsh names. For example, the protagonist of the First Branch is named Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed. The University of Wales dictionary, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, lists the following possible meanings for pwyll: \"deliberation, consideration, care, caution; discretion, prudence, wisdom, patience, understanding, intelligence, perception, judgment, mind, wit(s), reason, (common) sense, sanity.\" It is one of the hardest names in the text for North Americans to pronounce, since it contains the notoriously difficult voiceless lateral ll. Calling the character Prince Sage, as this translation does, is a way of addressing both issues. (In general, transparently meaningful names have been rendered in English; all other names have been left in modernized Welsh spelling, with a note on pronunciation when they first occur.) The editor has also included a number of contextual materials that help place the Mabinogi in the context of medieval Welsh history and culture.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nineteenth-century women's writing in wales
Argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. This title introduces readers to a hundred Welsh women authors at work during the years 1780-1900, some writing in Welsh and some in English.
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Cartographies of culture
Cartographies of Culture: New Geographies of Welsh Writing in English offers a pioneering new examination of the links between maps and imaginative writing. Concerned to draw literary studies and geography into a fruitful dialogue, the book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary study of literary texts in relation to the spatialities of culture. Taking the anglophone literature of Wales as its main 'data field', the book offers a boldly imaginative and stringently theorised analysis of five literary 'maps'. What emerges is nothing less than a new way of reading literature through, and as, maps.
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Reimagining the past in the borderlands of medieval England and Wales
\"'Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales' challenges the standard narrative of the relationship between England and Wales in the Middle Ages, which assumes that after Edward I's conquest of Wales in 1282, England grew increasingly powerful while Wales faded into insignificance. This book shows instead that concepts of Welsh and British history (as told by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others) were in fact enduringly potent instruments of political power in late medieval Britain, and came to have a profound effect on late medieval thought about empire, monarchy, and succession. The introduction of these ideas into the broader stream of political consciousness was brought about by the interests of baronial families in the March of Wales (the borderlands between England and Wales). Georgia Henley demonstrates the emergence of a particular brand of marcher literature interested in succession, land rights, and the narrative scope of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Marcher patrons leveraged their ancestral, political, and ideological ties to Wales in order to strengthen their political power, both regionally and nationally, through the patronage of historical and genealogical texts that reimagined the Welsh historical past on their terms. In doing so, they brought ideas of Welsh history to a wider audience and a higher degree of influence than previously appreciated.\" -- Details from publisher.
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Kingship, Conquest, and Patria
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Black skin, blue books
This is a ground breaking comparative study of the fascinating connections between African Americans and the Welsh, beginning in the era of slavery and concluding with the experiences of African American GIs in wartime Wales.
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