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Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooksGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645398','ISBN:9780748645411','ISBN:9780748645404']);This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland’s extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present.Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland’s rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.Key FeaturesExplores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singersExamines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and EnglishDraws on a wide range of examples including: Francis J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection; the waulking song; Gaelic folktale; the traditions of Fionn mac Cumhail; the songs of Anna Gordon Brown; ballads from Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and James Hogg's Jacobite Relics; and material from George Campbell Hay, Sorley Maclean and Hamish HendersonGuides readers through some of the key theoretical and conceptual issues in the fieldInclusive of Gaelic, Scots and English traditionsBroad historical coverage from late medieval to the contemporary"
English literature --- Scottish literature --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Scotland --- History.
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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, peri
Hogg, James, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ettrick shepherd, --- Craig, J. H., --- Hogg, James, -- 1770-1835 -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hogg, James, -- 1770-1835. --- Hogg, James, 1770-1835 -- Literary collections. --- English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Hogg, James
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This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day
History --- English literature --- Scotland --- Scottish Gaelic literature --- Scottish literature --- Women and literature --- Women --- Scottish authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- History and criticism --- In literature. --- Literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Gaelic literature --- Scots literature --- British literature --- LITTERATURE ECOSSAISE --- LITTERATURE GAELIQUE --- FEMMES --- FEMMES ET LITTERATURE --- ECOSSE (GRANDE-BRETAGNE) --- FEMMES ECRIVAINS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- ECOSSE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE
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The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 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. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary crit
Dialect literature, Scottish --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Scottish dialect literature --- Scottish literature --- History and criticism. --- Scottish authors --- Scottish authors&delete& --- History and criticism
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