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Written in the language of the Scottish nation : a history of literary translation into Scots / John Corbett.
LIBRA PE2103 .C67 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corbett, John, 1959-
- Series:
- Topics in translation ; 14.
- Topics in translation ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Scots
- Subjects (All):
- Scots language--Translating.
- Scots language.
- Translating and interpreting--Scotland--History.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Literature--Translations into Scots--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- History.
- Scotland.
- Nationalism--Scotland.
- Scottish literature--History and criticism.
- Local Subjects:
- Nationalism--Scotland.
- Scots language--Translating.
- Scottish literature--History and criticism.
- Translating and interpreting--Scotland--History.
- Literature--Translations into Scots--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 199 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon, UK ; Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters, [1999]
- Contents:
- 1 Scotland in Translation 1
- The Functions of Translation into Scots 1
- Translation and Scottish Literature 2
- Translation and Language Planning 4
- Translation and Nation 6
- Marking the Territory 7
- Scots, English and Translation Studies 7
- 2 'The Romanys now Begynnys' 13
- Multilingualism in Early Scotland 13
- Latin into Inglis 16
- French into Inglis 19
- 3 'Writtin in the Langage of Scottis Natioun' 28
- The Context of Douglas's Eneados 28
- Douglas's Theory of Translation 34
- The Language of the Scottish Nation 41
- The Influence of Douglas's Eneados 48
- 4 'Of Translations and Chaunges' 55
- Translation and Reformation 55
- The Court Poets of James VI 61
- Changes in Scots in the Sixteenth Century 74
- 5 'Wonders of the New Speech' 77
- William Drummond of Hawthornden: The End of an Auld Sang? 77
- Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty: The Road to Rabelais 84
- 6 'Nae Cotillion Brent New Frae France?' 95
- Towards the Union 95
- The Status of Scots after the Act of Union 97
- Homespun Horaces: Allan Ramsay and his Successors 100
- Homer in a Kilt: James Macpherson's Ossian 112
- Rediscovering Roots: Translations of Northern European Songs 115
- Pulpit Paraphrases: Victorian Bible Translations 120
- 7 'Mongrels of Fire and Clay' 126
- Making it New: Hugh MacDiarmid and his Successors 126
- 'The Auld and Nobil Tung': Revisionist Translations 140
- The Word Spoken: Lallans Translations on Stage 151
- The Status of Synthetic Scots 158
- 8 The Cult of the Real 161
- Regional Voices 161
- Urban Voices 169
- Mixed Voices 177
- 'Real' Voices? 180
- Polyphony 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1853594318
- OCLC:
- 39890367
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