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Book SynopsisThe skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in non-literary texts, such as personal letters. They cover aspects of the development of a national literature in the Scots language, and they also give due weight to its international dimension by focusing on translations into Scots from languages as diverse as Greek, Latin and Chinese, and by considering the spread of written Scots to Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Australia. Many of the essays respond to and extend the scholarship of J. Derrick McClure, whose considerable impact on Scottish literary and linguistic studies is surveyed and assessed in this volume.
Trade Review”The present collection provides a 360-degree overview of the variegated and multidisciplinary nature of the language that has been Derrick McClure’s lifetime passion; in this sense it is an undeniable success which the honorand may find to his taste, and constitutes a most suitable tribute to his brilliant and rich career.” - Edoardo McKenna, University of Aberdeen, in: ASLA - Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2014, pp. 161-171 “Ay, weill; as ye wul hae jaloused, this is a richt challenging and rewairdin wark, containin muntains o leir an a warld o deep insicht; weill warth the layin doun o 65 euros!” – Kenneth D. Farrow, in Lallans 84 (2014), pp. 121-128
Table of ContentsJohn M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod: J. Derrick McClure: An Appreciation J. Derrick McClure: List of Publications Acknowledgements Contributors John M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod: Introduction Jeremy Smith: Textual Afterlives: Barbour’s Bruce and Hary’s Wallace Robert McColl Millar: To bring my language near to the language of men? Dialect and Dialect Use in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Observations Marina Dossena: Stour or Dour or Clour: An Overview of Scots Usage in Stevenson’s Works and Correspondence James Robertson: Pittin the Word(s) Oot: The Itchy Coo Experience of Publishing in Scots in the Twenty-first Century Christine Robinson: Loanwords in Scots: Some Reflections from Lexicography Gavin Falconer: G.F. Savage-Armstrong’s Ballads of Down Stephen Dornan: Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels Michael B. Montgomery: The Linguistic Landscape of Eighteenth-Century South Argyll, as Revealed by Highland Scot Emigrants to North Carolina Graham Tulloch: Styles of Scots in Australian Literary Texts Caroline Macafee: How Gavin Douglas Handled Some Well-known Passages of Virgil’s Aeneid Peih-ying Lu and John Corbett: Doric Orientalism: James Legge’s Translation of the Shi Jin, or Book of Poetry Ian Brown: Motivation and Politico-cultural Context in the Creation of Scots Language Versions of Greek Tragedies John M. Kirk: Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry? Index
