The Cambridge Companion To Scottish Literature
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Author | : Gerard Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-12-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521189365 |
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Author | : Alexander Broadie |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2003-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521003230 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Author | : Deborah Cartmell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2007-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139827553 |
This Companion offers a multi-disciplinary approach to literature on film and television. Writers are drawn from different backgrounds to consider broad topics, such as the issue of adaptation from novels and plays to the screen, canonical and popular literature, fantasy, genre and adaptations for children. There are also case studies, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, the nineteenth-century novel and modernism, which allow the reader to place adaptations of the work of writers within a wider context. An interview with Andrew Davies, whose work includes Pride and Prejudice (1995) and Bleak House (2005), reveals the practical choices and challenges that face the professional writer and adaptor. The Companion as a whole provides an extensive survey of an increasingly popular field of study.
Author | : Jerrold E. Hogle |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2002-08-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107494486 |
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author | : Clare Barker |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107087821 |
Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
Author | : Edward James |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521016575 |
Author | : Ian Duncan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748655166 |
A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensab
Author | : David Glover |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521513375 |
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author | : Gerard Carruthers |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2023-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119651441 |
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Author | : Arthur F. Kinney |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 1999-12-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139825704 |
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the tumult of Catholic and Protestant alliances during the Reformation, the age of printing and of New World discovery. In this century courtly literature under Henry VIII moves toward a new, more personal poetry of sentiment, narrative and romance. The development of English prose is seen in the writing of More, Foxe and Hooker and in the evolution of satire and popular culture. Drama moves from the churches to the commercial playhouses with the plays of Kyd, Marlowe and the early careers of Shakespeare and Jonson. The Companion tackles all these subjects in fourteen newly-commissioned essays, written by experts for student readers. A detailed chronology of major literary achievements concludes with a list of authors and their dates.