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1 online resource (302 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; Volume 21
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Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; Volume 21.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; J. Derrick McClure: An Appreciation; J. Derrick McClure: List of Publications; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Textual Afterlives: Barbour's Bruce and Hary's Wallace; To bring my language near to the language of men? Dialect and Dialect Use in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Observations; Stour or Dour or Clour: An Overview of Scots Usage in Stevenson's Works and Correspondence; Pittin the Word(s) Oot: The Itchy Coo Experience of Publishing in Scots in the Twenty-first Century. |
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Loanwords in Scots: Some Reflections from LexicographyG. F. Savage-Armstrong's Ballads of Down; Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels; The Linguistic Landscape of Eighteenth-Century South Argyll, as Revealed by Highland Scot Emigrants to North Carolina; Styles of Scots in Australian Literary Texts; How Gavin Douglas Handled Some Well-known Passages of Virgil's Aeneid; Doric Orientalism: James Legge's Translation of the Shi Jin, or Book of Poetry; Motivation and Politico-cultural Context in the Creation of Scots Language Versions of Greek Tragedies; Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry?; Index. |
| Summary |
The 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- Scottish authors.
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English literature -- Scottish authors. |
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Scots language.
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Scots language. |
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Scottish literature.
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Scottish literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Kirk, John M. (John Monfries), 1952-
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Macleod, Iseabail.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kirk, John M. Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2013 9789042037397 |
| ISBN |
9789401209908 (electronic book) |
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9401209901 (electronic book) |
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9401209901 |
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