Duncane Laideus Testament and Other Comic Poems in Older Scots - Couverture rigide

 
9781897976388: Duncane Laideus Testament and Other Comic Poems in Older Scots
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1897976380 ISBN 13 : 9781897976388
Editeur : Scottish Text Society, 2016

Synopsis

First modern scholarly edition of a number of late medieval Scottish poems, in the comic tradition.

This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern scholarly editions, these worksare freshly established from diverse sources, including the manuscript that is the earliest extant of John Knox's "Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun". A manuscript owned by the Campbell of Glenorchy family is the source ofthe volume's most substantial work, Duncane Laideus Testament; the poem's bicultural outlook provides an important reference point for historians, as well as scholars of early Scottish and Gaelic literature. Other texts include David Lyndsay's The Complaint of Bagsche and the anonymous "My gudame wes a gay wif".
To assist study of the development of early Scottish writing, and to chart historical, especially religious, change, the poems are arranged in their probable order of composition. Each is introduced separately, with consideration of witnesses; evidence for date of composition and authorship; title, metre, and genre; and full apparatus. Explanatory notesexamine matters of interest or potential difficulty, including the sense of contemporary expressions, wordplay, legal and Latin terms, and debts to earlier writers.The volume also includes a full Bibliography, Glossary, and Indexof Names and Places.

Dr Janet Hadley Williams is Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University.

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À propos de l?auteur

Honorary Visiting Fellow, English and Drama, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University

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Éditeur
Scottish Text Society
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1897976380
ISBN 13 
9781897976388
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
278
Éditeur
Hadley Williams Janet
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