"Joyous sweit imaginatioun" : : essays on Scottish literature in honour of R.D.S. Jack / edited by Sarah Carpenter and Sarah M. Dunnigan.
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 twentie...
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| Superior document: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 9 |
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| 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]. |
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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.