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A comprehensive introduction to Robert Burns in a contemporary critical context

Burns, Robert --- Burns, Robert, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This text is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship.

Performing arts. --- Performance poetry. --- Burns, Robert,

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This is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the language of Robert Burns. While engaging fully with up-to-date literary criticism, it makes use of theories and analytical techniques from twenty-first-century sociolinguistics in order to offer a new understanding of how Burns's language works.

Burns, Robert, --- Berns, Robert, --- Бернс, Роберт, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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The Genius of Scotland: The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834 explores the wide-ranging reception history of Robert Burns by examining the sources of his reputation as the ‘Genius of Scotland’ in the Scottish Enlightenment and beyond. Evaluating his changing stature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book investigates the figure of Burns as a ‘cultural production’ that was constructed by warring cultural forces in the literary marketplace. The critical promotion of Burns as the ‘Heaven-taught ploughman’ greatly influenced his legacy as a labouring-class ‘genius’ and national icon, both of which relied on blatant censorship and distortion of his biography and works. The Genius of Scotland debunks both the hagiographic and vituperative representations of the poet from this period, revealing not only how (and why) he was culturally produced as a national ‘genius’ but also how the process continues to influence our understanding of Burns into the present day.

Literature and society --- Literature and society --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Burns, Robert, --- Burns, Robert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Appreciation.

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New essays on Burns' special place in Scottish, English and Irish literary cultureGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748664887','ISBN:9780748643585','ISBN:9780748643578']);In this volume, 17 leading Burns scholars, poetry critics and practising poets reflect on the enduring significance of one of the most important poets of the 18th century. They show that Burns was a highly innovative and technically accomplished poet, as capable of transforming earlier traditions as of launching new literary trends.Looks at Burns’ place amongst his literary predecessors, contemporaries and heirs, including:Scottish poets such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Byron, Hogg, MacDiarmid, Paterson, Dunn & Mackay BrownEnglish poets such as Milton, Addison, Gray & WordsworthClassical writers such as VirgilIrish poets such as Merriman, Goldsmith, Dermody & HeaneyBy looking at Burns in the context of other poets, each chapter sheds new lighton his own practices and the practice of poetry in general. They investigate the political, national, philosophical and ethical aspects of his poetry, showing how you can deepen your close readings with historical awareness.Key Features:Contributors include leading poet-critics such as award-winning Burns author Robert Crawford & Douglas Dunn, and experts in poetry criticism such as Stephen Gill & Patrick CrottyIncludes two exclusive new poems written for the volume by Bernard O'Donoghue and Andrew McNeillieCreative-critical discussions will generate new dialogues in Romanticism, Archipelagic Studies and Scottish, English & Irish literary studies"

English poetry --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Burns, Robert, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Berns, Robert, --- Бернс, Роберт, --- Literaturbeziehungen. --- Schottisch. --- Zeitgenossen. --- Geschichte 1790-2000. --- Irland. --- Schottland. --- Lyrik. --- Rezeption. --- England.