Scots.
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...
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| Superior document: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 21 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Editions Rodopi,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (302 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- J. Derrick McClure: An Appreciation / John M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod
- J. Derrick McClure: List of Publications
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Textual Afterlives: Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace / Jeremy Smith
- To bring my language near to the language of men? Dialect and Dialect Use in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Observations / Robert McColl Millar
- Stour or Dour or Clour: An Overview of Scots Usage in Stevenson’s Works and Correspondence / Marina Dossena
- Pittin the Word(s) Oot: The Itchy Coo Experience of Publishing in Scots in the Twenty-first Century / James Robertson
- Loanwords in Scots: Some Reflections from Lexicography / Christine Robinson
- G.F. Savage-Armstrong’s Ballads of Down / Gavin Falconer
- Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels / Stephen Dornan
- The Linguistic Landscape of Eighteenth-Century South Argyll, as Revealed by Highland Scot Emigrants to North Carolina / Michael B. Montgomery
- Styles of Scots in Australian Literary Texts / Graham Tulloch
- How Gavin Douglas Handled Some Well-known Passages of Virgil’s Aeneid / Caroline Macafee
- Doric Orientalism: James Legge’s Translation of the Shi Jin, or Book of Poetry / Peih-ying Li and John Corbett
- Motivation and Politico-cultural Context in the Creation of Scots Language Versions of Greek Tragedies / Ian Brown
- Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry? / John M. Kirk
- Index.