The Edinburgh Companion to Scots
Author: John Corbett
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
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The Edinburgh Companion to Scots
Author: John Corbett
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781474421607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011-05-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0748646345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Author: Glenda Norquay
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-06-20
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748664807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0748636501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture, and there is extensive coverage of publishing history including Burns's place in popular, bourgeois and Enlightenment cultures during the late eighteenth century. This is the most modern collection of critical responses to Burns from scholars from the United Kingdom and North America, which, more than ever before, seeks to place Burns as a 'mainstream' man of Enlightenment and Romantic impetus and to explain the enduring and sometimes controversial fascination for both the man and his work over more than two hundred years.
Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Author: Moray Watson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-06-30
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0748637109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBringing 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.
Scotland and the British Empire
Author: John M. MacKenzie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0199573247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship between Scotland and the British Empire is vital both for the understanding of the histories of that country and of many territories of the Empire.
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-10
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521003230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg
Author: Ian Duncan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2012-05-11
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0748655166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensab
Scottish Gothic
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474408206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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.
