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8 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.36451
- isbn: 9782753508422
- eisbn: 9782753546851
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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littérature fantastique littérature de langue anglaise XXème siècle étrangeté histoire LIT004120 Literature (General) DSBSujets proches
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Chris Morash, « Disenchanted Island : From Celtic Twilight to Celtic Tiger », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.36451
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“There are some doubters even in the western villages,” wrote W B. Yeats in the little volume he published in 1893 as The Celtic Twilight : One woman told me last Christmas that she did not believe either in hell or in ghosts. Hell she thought was merely an invention got up by the priest to keep people good ; and ghosts would not be permitted, she held, to go “traipsin about the earth” at their own free will ; “but there are faeries,” she added “and little leprechauns, and water-horses, and f...