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Author : John Corbett,J. Derrick McClure,Jane Stuart-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UCSC:32106015891713
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 : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748646340
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 : John Corbett,J. Derrick McClure,Jane Stuart-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Scots language
ISBN : 1474421601
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748664801
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 : Berthold Schoene-Harwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015070742351
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.
Author : Moray Watson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748637102
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 : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748684595
Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooks.
Author : John Corbett,J. Derrick McClure,Jane Stuart-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1474421598
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474408202
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.
Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670208
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 : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636273
The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.
Author : Ian Duncan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655144
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.
Author : Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231142021
Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies is the first guide to cover both the Anglo-American analytic and European Continental traditions. The first section features Nicholas Rescher writing on neoidealism, Josephine Donovan commenting on feminist philosophy, Tyler Burge discussing the philosophy of language and mind, and Robert Hanna reflecting on Kant's legacy. The second section presents Jean Grondin on hermeneutics, Leonard Lawlor on phenomenology, Charles Scott on postmodernism, and Babette Babich on the philosophy of science. The volume also covers logical positivism, naturalism, pragmatism, aesthetics, existentialism, Marxism, the Frankfurt School, structuralism, psychoanalysis, political philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. The final section addresses concurrent trends in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and African philosophy, and a comprehensive introduction by Constantin V. Boundas not only provides a thorough outline of the problems and issues of the analytic and Continental traditions but also boldly challenges the conviction that the two approaches must be rivals. Offering an unusually panoramic perspective, the Columbia Companion to Twentieth-Century Philosophies enables readers to encounter foundational materials on their own terms.
Author : Anne Varty
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748654734
Explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century.The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz Lochhead's appointment as Scotland's second Scots Makar, this Companion examines her poetry, theatre, visual and performing arts, and broadcast media. It also discusses her theatre for children and young people, her translations for the stage as well as translations of her texts into foreign languages and cultures.Several poets offer commentaries on the influence of Liz Lochhead on their own practice while academic critics from America, Europe, England and Scotland offer new critical readings inspired by feminism, post-colonialism and cultural history. The volume addresses all of Lochhead's major outputs, from new appraisal of early work such as Dreaming Frankenstein and Blood and Ice to evaluations of her more recent works and collections such as The Colour of Black and White and Perfect Days.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636952
This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.
