Author: John CorbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots
Author: John CorbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Glenda NorquayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748664807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748646345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots
Author: John CorbettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781474421607
Category : Scots language
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
Author: Berthold Schoene-HarwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This title examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997.
Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Author: Moray WatsonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748637109
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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.
Scottish Gothic
Author: Carol Margaret DavisonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474408214
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
Author: Ian DuncanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074865514X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg's life and worlds, his publishing history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics, religion, nationality, social class, sexuality and gender, and the diverse literary forms - ballads, songs, poems, drama, short stories, novels, periodicals - in which he wrote.
Scotland and the British Empire
Author: John M. MacKenziePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Author: Fiona RobertsonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748670203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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.