Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures write by Sarah Dunnigan. This book was released on 2013-08-20. Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama write by Ian Brown. This book was released on 2011-05-16. Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott write by Fiona Robertson. This book was released on 2012-09-25. Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing write by Glenda Norquay. This book was released on 2012-06-20. Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature write by Ian Brown. This book was released on 2009-07-03. Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
