Scottish Studies Review
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 280
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Language in Scotland
Author: Wendy Anderson
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 940120974X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chapters in this volume take as their focus aspects of three of the languages of Scotland: Scots, Scottish English, and Scottish Gaelic. They present linguistic research which has been made possible by new and developing corpora of these languages: this encompasses work on lexis and lexicogrammar, semantics, pragmatics, orthography, and punctuation. Throughout the volume, the findings of analysis are accompanied by discussion of the methodologies adopted, including issues of corpus design and representativeness, search possibilities, and the complementarity and interoperability of linguistic resources. Together, the chapters present the forefront of the research which is currently being directed towards the linguistics of the languages of Scotland, and point to an exciting future for research driven by ever more refined corpora and related language resources.
The Cutting Room
Author: Louise Welsh
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1999-11-01
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1847673937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Unputdownable' Sunday Times 'I was hooked from page one' Guardian When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting for his life.
The Celtic Unconscious
Author: Richard Barlow
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0268101043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Celtic Unconscious offers a vital new interpretation of modernist literature through an examination of James Joyce’s employment of Scottish literature and philosophy, as well as a commentary on his portrayal of shared Irish and Scottish histories and cultures. Barlow also offers an innovative look at the strong influences that Joyce’s predecessors had on his work, including James Macpherson, James Hogg, David Hume, Robert Burns, and Robert Louis Stevenson. The book draws upon all of Joyce’s major texts but focuses mainly on Finnegans Wake in making three main, interrelated arguments: that Joyce applies what he sees as a specifically “Celtic” viewpoint to create the atmosphere of instability and skepticism of Finnegans Wake; that this reasoning is divided into contrasting elements, which reflect the deep religious and national divide of post-1922 Ireland, but which have their basis in Scottish literature; and finally, that despite the illustration of the contrasts and divisions of Scottish and Irish history, Scottish literature and philosophy are commissioned by Joyce as part of a program of artistic “decolonization” which is enacted in Finnegans Wake. The Celtic Unconscious is the first book-length study of the role of Scottish literature in Joyce’s work and is a vital contribution to the fields of Irish and Scottish studies. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Joyce, and to students interested in Irish studies, Scottish studies, and English literature.
Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Author: Silke Stroh
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0810134047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than patriotic victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in recent years, especially in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on independence, and remain topical amid continuing campaigns for more autonomy and calls for a post-Brexit “indyref2.” Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. The main focus is on internal divisions between the anglophone Lowlands and traditionally Gaelic Highlands, which also play a crucial role in Scottish–English relations. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of two simultaneous developments: the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism.
Modern Scottish Culture
Author: Michael Gardiner
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.
Slaves and Highlanders
Author: David Alston
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474427319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Longlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize.
Scottish Education
Author: T. G. K. Bryce
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 1120
ISBN-13: 1474437850
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterrogates the rise of national philosophies and their impact on cosmopolitanism and nationalism.
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots
Author: John Corbett
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
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Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language
Author: John M. Kirk
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9401209901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in non-literary texts, such as personal letters. They cover aspects of the development of a national literature in the Scots language, and they also give due weight to its international dimension by focusing on translations into Scots from languages as diverse as Greek, Latin and Chinese, and by considering the spread of written Scots to Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Australia. Many of the essays respond to and extend the scholarship of J. Derrick McClure, whose considerable impact on Scottish literary and linguistic studies is surveyed and assessed in this volume.
