wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI
ISBN: 9780333918753 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encompassing the period from the early 1560s to the late 1590s, this is the first study to link together Scottish Marian and Jacobean court literatures, presenting a relatively unknown body of writing, newly theorized and contextualized. It argues that in this period erotic poetry can only be considered in relation to the figure of the monarch, and that the formation of elite lyric culture takes place under the shaping influence of desire for, and...
Eros and Poetry examines the erotics of literary desire at the Stewart court in Scotland during the reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI. Encom...
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389,98 zł |
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
ISBN: 9780748645404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present.
Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the... This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional cul...
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417,35 zł |
The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
ISBN: 9780748645398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present.
Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the... This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional cul...
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151,24 zł |
A Flame in the Mearns: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Centenary Celebration
ISBN: 9780948877544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Essential for both new students and longtime admirers, this collection of papers discussing Lewis Grassic Gibbon's fiction (including works written under his pen name James Leslie Mitchell) includes his essays and poetry, as well as analysis of his language and politics.
Essential for both new students and longtime admirers, this collection of papers discussing Lewis Grassic Gibbon's fiction (including works written un...
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126,96 zł |
"Joyous Sweit Imaginatioun": Essays on Scottish Literature in Honour of R.D.S. Jack
ISBN: 9789042023130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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...
This volume gathers together essays on Scottish literature, diverse in historical period, mode, and form in honour of Professor R.D.S. Jack, Professor...
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322,57 zł |
The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781908980298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children's literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how...
This volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As wel...
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146,52 zł |
Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing
ISBN: 9781403911810 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This collection is the first critical and theoretical study of women as the subjects of writing and as writers in Medieval and Early-Modern Scottish literature. The essays draw on a diverse range of literary, historical, cultural and religious sources in Scots, Gaelic and English to discover the complex ways in which 'Woman' was represented and by which women represented themselves as creative subjects. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing brings to light previously unknown writing by women in the early modern period and offers as well new interpretations of...
This collection is the first critical and theoretical study of women as the subjects of writing and as writers in Medieval and Early-Modern Scottish l...
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194,97 zł |