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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunnigan, Sarah, Author.

Contributor:

Dunnigan, Sarah.

Gilbert, Suzanne.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature The Edinburgh companion to Scottish traditional literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Scottish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Scottish literature--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Scotland--History.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh [Great Britain] : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooksGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748645398','ISBN:9780748645411','ISBN:9780748645404']);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 historical analysis of Scotland’s rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.Key FeaturesExplores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singersExamines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and EnglishDraws on a wide range of examples including: Francis J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection; the waulking song; Gaelic folktale; the traditions of Fionn mac Cumhail; the songs of Anna Gordon Brown; ballads from Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and James Hogg's Jacobite Relics; and material from George Campbell Hay, Sorley Maclean and Hamish HendersonGuides readers through some of the key theoretical and conceptual issues in the fieldInclusive of Gaelic, Scots and English traditionsBroad historical coverage from late medieval to the contemporary"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Editor’s Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Roots of Living Tradition

2. Genre

3. Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures

4. Transmission

5. ‘Tradition’ and Literature in the Medieval Period

6. Vernacular Gaelic Tradition

7. The Early Modern Period

8. The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland

9. Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism

10. Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century

11. Tradition and Scottish Romanticism

12. Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island Folklore

13. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature

14. The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival

15. Continuing the Living Tradition

Endnotes

Further Reading

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2013).

ISBN:

9780748645411

0748645411

OCLC:

861080374