Studies in Scottish Literature 43:1 Periodization |
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Author:
| Scott, Patrick |
Editor:
| Scott, Patrick Jarrells, Tony |
Guest Editor:
| Shields, Juliet |
Series title: | Studies in Scottish Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-5463-9443-3 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2017 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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This new issue of Scottish Literature's longest-running scholarly journal has contributions from a full range of historical periods, from mediaeval to modern, with articles on literature in Gaelic as well as in Scots and English. The issue opens with a symposium on changing attitudes to periodization, guest-edited and introduced by Juliet Shields, with contributions from Michael Newton (on periodization in Gaelic), Andrew W. Kein (medieval Scottish verse-forms), Rivka Swenson (Scottish...
More DescriptionThis new issue of Scottish Literature's longest-running scholarly journal has contributions from a full range of historical periods, from mediaeval to modern, with articles on literature in Gaelic as well as in Scots and English. The issue opens with a symposium on changing attitudes to periodization, guest-edited and introduced by Juliet Shields, with contributions from Michael Newton (on periodization in Gaelic), Andrew W. Kein (medieval Scottish verse-forms), Rivka Swenson (Scottish prose fiction before the novel), Eric Jaccard (Scottish literature's global connections), and Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson (on periodization in the liberal arts curriculum). Full-length articles in the issue include:David Parkinson, on Barbour's Black Douglas Jamie Reid Baxter, on James Melville and Ane Dialogue (1619)David Robb, on the Romance of Terror in Stevenson's The Dynamiter Ian Campbell, on Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Church of ScotlandPetra Johana Poncarov#65533;, on Sorley MacLean and the ClearancesThe issue concludes with an illustrated note on the manuscripts of Burns's song "Ay waukin O," a review-essay on a new Andrew Lang edition, and brief reviews or notices of other recently published books on Scottish literature.