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The Scots thesaurus
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ISBN: 0080365825 Year: 1990 Publisher: Aberdeen Aberdeen University Press

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The ballad matrix : personality, milieu, and the oral tradition.
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ISBN: 0253337186 Year: 1990 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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The Ballad Matrix : Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition
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ISBN: 0253055636 Year: 1990 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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The Ballad Matrix examines the William Motherwell ballad collection, one of the largest collections of songs gathered during the golden age of ballad collecting in Scotland (1780 to 1830). The collected repertoire of Agnes Lyle of Kilbarchan, Motherwell's most prolific informant, consists of twenty-two full texts, some with tunes, and a number of additional fragments. Revealing how Agnes Lyle relied on the narrative techniques of ballad singing, these songs also show how she achieved expression of personal values and concerns even though her medium, the ballad, was a highly traditional one. When in her ballads Agnes Lyle expressed traditional attitudes toward luxury, sexuality, or death, her expression was uniquely vehement. Furthermore, she was able to express radical social and political attitudes, which are not traditional in balladry. Study of Agnes Lyle's ballads thus allows a better understanding of what it meant for a traditional singer to "learn" a ballad and to what extent she was free to make the song her own.


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Waldschäden erkennen : Fichte und Kiefer = Monitoring of forest damage : spruce and pine = Reconnaître les dommages forestiers : épicéa et pin.
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ISBN: 3800133083 9783800133086 Year: 1990 Publisher: Stuttgart : Bromley : London : Eugen Ulmer ; Christopher Helm ; A & C Black,


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Spatial processes in plant communities : proceedings of the workshop held in Liblice, 18-22 September 1989
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ISBN: 8020003274 905103041X Year: 1990 Publisher: Praha : Academia nakladatelstvi CSAV (CeskoSlovenska Akademie Ved) = Publishing house of the Czechoslovak academy of sciences,

The Puritan-provincial vision : Scottish and American literature in the nineteenth century
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ISBN: 0521372372 0521107016 0511570481 9780521372374 9780521107013 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the 'puritan-provincial vision': a particular way of looking at life and man's relationship to what lies beyond himself. The book begins with the writings of Calvin and culminates in detailed comparisons of individual works of Scottish and American nineteenth-century prose, questioning the literary and human consequences of this vision through theological, philosophical, political and literary contexts. This puritan-provincial vision is not exclusive to Scottish and American literature so the features discussed here will interest those concerned with other literatures written in English.

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