Reading Robert Burns - Texts, Contexts, Transformations

Informationen zum Autor Carol McGuirk is Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University. Klappentext Robert Burns is Scotland's greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns's poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work. Zusammenfassung Robert Burns is Scotland’s greatest cultural icon. Yet, despite his continued popularity, critical work has been compromised by the myths that have built up around him. McGuirk focuses on Burns’s poems and songs, analysing his use of both vernacular Scots and literary English to provide a unique reading of his work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Robt. Burness to Poet Burns: Bard, Interrupted 2. 'If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light from Heaven': Wordsworth Responds to Burns 3. Highlands: Burns, Lady Nairne and National Song 4. Three Drunk Men: Visionary Midnight in Robert Fergusson, Burns and Hugh MacDiarmid Epilogue: Burns and Aphorism; or Poetry into Proverb

Product details

• Authors: Carol Mcguirk, McGuirk Carol
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2014
• EAN: 9781848935198
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-519-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Poetry and Song in the Age of; Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets