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Title

The Edinburgh companion to Scottish traditional literatures / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert.

Publication

• Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971-
• Gilbert, Suzanne

Description

viii, 216 pages : music; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Uniform Title

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Subject

• Folk literature, Scottish > History and criticism
• Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic > History and criticism
• Folk songs > Scotland > History and criticism
• Scottish literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

Contents

The Roots of Living Tradition / Margaret Bennett -- Genre / Emily Lyle, Valentina Bold, Ian Russell -- Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures / Lizanne Henderson -- Transmission / James Porter -- 'Tradition' and Literature in the Medieval Period / John McNamara -- Vernacular Gaelic Tradition / Robert Dunbar -- The Early Modern Period / Sarah Dunnigan -- The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland / Anja Gunderloch -- Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism / Valentina Bold -- Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century / Katherine Campbell and Kirsteen McCue -- Tradition and Scottish Romanticism / Suzanne Gilbert -- Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island Folklore / Jason Marc Harris -- Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature / Michael Newton -- The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival / Corey Gibson -- Continuing the Living Tradition / Margaret Bennett.

Call Number

JFE 13-8390

ISBN

• 9780748645404 (hardback)
• 0748645403 (hardback)
• 9780748645398 (paperback)
• 074864539X (paperback)
• 9780748645411 (webready PDF) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780748684595 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013362066

OCLC

824733644

Title

The Edinburgh companion to Scottish traditional literatures / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

Added Author

Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971- editor.

Gilbert, Suzanne, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8390