Book Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : John Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636501
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture, and there is extensive coverage of publishing history including Burns's place in popular, bourgeois and Enlightenment cultures during the late eighteenth century. This is the most modern collection of critical responses to Burns from scholars from the United Kingdom and North America, which, more than ever before, seeks to place Burns as a 'mainstream' man of Enlightenment and Romantic impetus and to explain the enduring and sometimes controversial fascination for both the man and his work over more than two hundred years.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748664807
By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.
Author : John Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Scots language
ISBN : 9781474421607
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748646345
Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.
Author : Anna Barton
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474423847
Provides a wide-ranging account of the different disciplinary, critical and theoretical contexts relevant to the study of nonsense.
Author : Moray Watson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0748637109
Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity, perception, language planning and the appearance of the language in literature. Each chapter is written by an expert on their topic.The book has been written accessibly with a non-specialist audience in mind. It will have a particular value for those requiring introductions to aspects of the Gaelic language. It will also be of great interest to those who are embarking on research on Gaelic for the first time. Authors include Colm O Baoill, David Adger, Rob Dunbar, Seosamh Watson, Ken Nilsen, Ken MacKinnon and Ronald Black.
Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748670203
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0199573247
Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the Empire.
Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474408214
Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.