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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-liter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ;
Volume 21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.