"Joyous sweit imaginatioun" : : essays on Scottish literature in honour of R.D.S. Jack / edited by Sarah Carpenter and Sarah M. Dunnigan.

• Superior document: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 9
• VerfasserIn: Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971-,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jack, Ronald D. S.,; Carpenter, Sarah,; Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971-,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Originated from a " ... conference in honour of Professor Ronnie Jack held in 2004 ..."--Page [9].

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.-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Jack MacQueen and Alastair Fowler -- Introduction / Sarah Carpenter and Sarah M. Dunnigan -- The Open Sentence: Memory, Identity and Translation in the Kingis Quair / Elizabeth Elliott -- “In brief sermone ane pregnant sentence”: Puns and Perspectivism in Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid / Kevin J. McGinley -- A Tough Nut to Crack: Robert Henryson’s Nut and Kernel Metaphor / David Moses -- Eger and Grime and the Boundaries of Courtly Romance / Sergi Mainer -- “Verbs, mongrels, participles and hybrids”: Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty’s Universal Language / John Corbett -- Love and Chastity: Political Performance in Scottish, French and English Courts of 1560s / Sarah Carpenter -- Drummond and the Meaning of Beauty / Sarah M. Dunnigan -- Thomas Ker of Redden’s Trip to the Low Countries, 1620 / John J. McGavin -- Rutherford’s Landscapes / David J. Parkinson -- Robert Fergusson and the Romantic Ode / Murray Pittock -- Burns and Barrie: “Deceptive Artists” / Kenneth Simpson -- J.M. Barrie and the Third Sex / Andrew Nash -- Professor R.D.S. Jack MA, PhD, DLitt, F.R.S.E., F.E.A.: Publications -- Index.