The international companion to Scottish poetry / / edited by Carla Sassi ; Thomas Owen Clancy, Gaelic advisor

• Pubblicazione: Glasgow : , : Scottish Literature International, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 300 pages).)
• Disciplina: 821.009
• Soggetto topico: English poetry - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Scottish poetry - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Scotland In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): SassiCarla; ClancyThomas Owen
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Carla Sassi -- part 1. Languages and chronologies -- 1. Early Celtic poetry (to 1500) / Thomas Owen Clancy -- 2. Scots poetry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / R.D.S. Jack -- 3. Poetry in Latin / Roger Green -- 4. Poetry in the languages and dialects of northern Scotland / Roberta Frank, Brian Smith -- 5. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sìm Innes and Alessandra Petrina -- 6. The eighteenth century / Ronald Black and Gerard Carruthers -- 7. The nineteenth century / Ian Duncan and Sheila Kidd -- 8. The poetry of modernity (1870-1950) / Emma Dymock and Scott Lyall -- 9. Contemporary poetry (1950-) / Attila Dósa and Michelle Macleod -- part 2. Poetic forms -- 10. The form of Scottish Gaelic poetry / William Gillies -- 11. Scots poetic forms / Derrick McClure -- 12. The ballad in Scots and English / Suzanne Gilbert -- part 3. Topics and themes -- 13. Nature, landscape and rural life / Louisa Gairn -- 14. Nation and home / Carla Sassi and Silke Stroh -- 15. Protest and politics / Wilson McLeod and Alan Riach -- 16. Love and erotic poetry / Peter Mackay -- 17. Faith and religion / Meg Bateman and James McGonigal -- 18. Scottish poetry as world poetry / Paul Barnaby -- 19. The literary environment / Robyn Marsack.
• Sommario/riassunto: A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland's poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from early medieval texts to contemporary writers, and examines English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots verse.
• Titolo autorizzato: The international companion to Scottish poetry
• ISBN: 1-908980-18-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910466104103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International companions to Scottish literature.