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The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision
The Making of the Scottish Dream-Vision
Autore Murray Kylie
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : British Academy, , 2026
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (311 pages)
Collana British Academy Monographs
Soggetto non controllato Scotland
medieval
dream-vision
manuscript culture
nationhood
identity
poetry
chronicle
Latin
Scots
literary tradition
mystical tradition
theological background
intellectual culture
history of ideas
classical reception
Chaucer
James I of Scotland
Walter Bower
Hary's Wallace
prophecy
William Dunbar
Gavin Douglas
Scotichronicon
ISBN 1-80596-629-4
1-80596-628-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transcriptions and References -- Introduction -- Understanding Dream and Vision in the Middle Ages -- Approaching Scotland as a Case Study -- 1 Prior Engagements: Scotland's Early Reception of Dream and Vision -- Historical Writing and Identities in Latin and Scots -- Devotional Texts and Contexts -- French Texts and Contexts -- English Texts and Contexts -- 2 The Kingis Quair and Its Manuscript Context -- The Kingis Quair: a New Scottish Dream-Vision -- The Kingis Quair's Reception and Authorship -- Troilus and Criseyde in Scotland -- 3 Bower's Scotichronicon and the Prose‑Latin Dream-Vision -- Mystical Visions: St Katherine of Alexandria and St Bridget of Sweden -- Visions of Royal Scottish Sanctity: St Margaret, Queen of Scotlandand St Waltheof, Abbot of Melrose -- Visions as Reflection and Refraction of the Speculum Principis -- Advice to All: Clerical Visions of Appetite and Greed -- From Prose-Latin to Older Scots Verse: the Reception of Bower's Dream-Vision -- Appendix: Table of Dream-VisionNarrativesin the Scotichronicon -- 4 Prophetic and Nationalist Dream-Visions -- Thomas of Erceldoune and Envisioning the Scottish 'History of the Future' -- Wallace's Nightmare -- Wallace's Dream-Visionof Scotland -- 'Worthy Even of Enemy Praise': Wallace's Heavenly Ascent and Its Afterlives -- 5 Rethinking Scotland's AmatoryDream-Vision -- Lancelot of the Laik: Dream-Vision Prologues and Arthurian Guidance -- From Courtly Love to Courtly Injustice: Henryson's Testament of Cresseid -- From Love at First Sight to Loss at Last Sight: Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and Orpheus and Eurydice -- Anti- or Extra-Amatory? The Dream-Visionof Douglas's Palice of Honour -- The Colourful Anti-AmatoryDream-Vision: Dunbar's Goldyn Targe.
The Cultural Reception of Dunbar's Courtly Dream-VisionsinEarly 16th-Century Scotland -- Epilogue: 'Mak vpwark heirof and cloyss our buke' -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Manuscripts.
Record Nr. UNINA-9911069024703321
Murray Kylie  
London : , : British Academy, , 2026
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Scare tactics [[electronic resource] ] : supernatural fiction by American women / / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Scare tactics [[electronic resource] ] : supernatural fiction by American women / / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Autore Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 228 p. )
Disciplina 813/.087209
Soggetto topico American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
Supernatural in literature
Gothic revival (Literature) - United States
Ghost stories, American - History and criticism
Horror tales, American - History and criticism
Occultism in literature
Soggetto non controllato American women
feminist
gothic
literary tradition
supernatural writing
uncanny tale
women's rights
ISBN 0-8232-4104-1
1-282-69893-1
9786612698934
0-8232-3820-2
0-8232-2987-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction: The unacknowledged tradition -- The ghost in the parlor : Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna M. Hoyt, and Edith Wharton -- Queer haunting spaces : Madeline Yale Wynne and Elia Wilkinson Peattie -- Ghosts of progress : Alice Cary, Mary Noailles Murfree, Mary Austin, and Edith Wharton -- Familial ghosts : Louise Stockton, Olivia Howard Dunbar, Edith Wharton, Josephine Daskam Bacon, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Georgia Wood Pangborn, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Ghosts of desire : Rose Terry Cooke, Alice Brown, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and Helen Hull -- Ghostly returns : Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gertrude Atherton, and Josephine Daskam Bacon -- Coda: The decline of the American female Gothic.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780971203321
Weinstock Jeffrey Andrew  
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
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The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
Autore Mir Farina
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina 891.4/209355
Collana South Asia across the disciplines
Soggetto topico Panjabi literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Panjabi literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 19th century
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato british colonial era
british india
colonial dominance
colonialism
cultural history
epic romances
language
late colonial india
linguistic historians
linguistics
literary genres
literary tradition
moral sensibility
multidisciplinary study
nationalist politics
north india
poetics
popular literature
print literature
punjab
punjabi language
punjabi stories
qisse
regional languages
religious communal identities
social history
south asia
symbolism
vernacular culture
ISBN 1-282-77178-7
9786612771781
0-520-94764-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910785240703321
Mir Farina  
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
Materiale a stampa
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The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
Autore Mir Farina
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina 891.4/209355
Collana South Asia across the disciplines
Soggetto topico Panjabi literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Panjabi literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 19th century
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato british colonial era
british india
colonial dominance
colonialism
cultural history
epic romances
language
late colonial india
linguistic historians
linguistics
literary genres
literary tradition
moral sensibility
multidisciplinary study
nationalist politics
north india
poetics
popular literature
print literature
punjab
punjabi language
punjabi stories
qisse
regional languages
religious communal identities
social history
south asia
symbolism
vernacular culture
ISBN 1-282-77178-7
9786612771781
0-520-94764-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910812133903321
Mir Farina  
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
Materiale a stampa
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