Charpentier

2007 · 9042023139 — Brill 2007. New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Sarah Carpenter Sarah M. Dunnigan</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Brill</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9789042023130</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2007</p><p><strong>Languages:</strong> English</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Paperback</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 249</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> This volume gathers together essays on Scottish literature diverse in historical period mode and form in honour of Professor R.D.S. Jack Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Chronologically the collection sweeps from the early middle ages to the early twentieth century from Robert Henryson to J.M. Barrie conveying a sense of the shifting and subtle identities and continuities of Scottish literary traditions across the centuries and opening up through a distinctive and unusual range of writers and texts unfamiliar aesthetic cultural and linguistic landscapes. Unusual and wide-ranging in subject and scope the volume explores Scottish medieval romance and allegory Renaissance court performance early modern travel writing seventeenth-century poetry Sir Thomas Urquhart’s universal language theory Scottish Romanticism Burns and Barrie. Shared threads of interest run through the collection: a questioning of the canonical; attentiveness to questions of language rhetoric and form; and a commitment to uncovering the dynamic interaction between European and Scottish traditions. Collectively the volume charts a new series of imaginative cross-currents across historical periods and literary modes attesting the importance of and necessity for a critical vision of Scottish literature which is pluralistic comparative and sensitive to form mode and rhetoric. Editorial Reviews Review â€â€¦an attractive volume well-planned and edited.†in: Scottish Literary Review Vol. 2 No. 2 2011</p> Brill paperback