A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period.
This book enables both students and more advanced scholars to develop a comprehensive understanding of Older Scots, the form of Scots which survives in records up to around 1700. It provides the means of understanding the language's essential characteristics, and enables readers to engage with the fascinating textual and linguistic problems which it presents. The volume contains an extensive set of annotated texts from the period, inviting closer engagement with the detail of the language, which are preceded by a comprehensive introduction to and discussion of the subject; it also looks at the linguistic detail (in the broadest sense) of the reception and afterlife of medieval andearly modern Scottish texts. Those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will find it a "kit" for stylistic analysis; book historians will appreciate the detailed studies of processes of production and reception, and be reminded of the importance of integrating disciplines such as textual criticism, codicology, paleography and philology; and for linguists, there is access to an unrivalled body of up-to-date textual information, previously hard to find in a single place.
Jeremy J. Smith is Professor of English Philology, University of Glasgow.
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A full introduction to Older Scots language and literature, with a wide selection of copiously annotated texts from the period.
Preface
About Older Scots
Transmission
Grammar and Lexicon
Style in Older Scottish Texts
List of Texts
Editorial Principles
Texts 1: Documents
Texts 2: Letters
Texts 3: On language and literature
Texts 4: Poetry
Texts 5: Prose
Texts 6: Bible translation
Appendix: Older Scots: the first hundred words
Bibliography and references
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Makes a vital contribution to Older Scots studies. [It] will be much appreciated by scholars and students alike.... The combination of high calibre scholarship, carefully selected texts, and a lucid, engaging written style, ensures that Smith's Linguistic Reader makes the Older Scots language come alive for students and researchers alike.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781897976340
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Scottish Text Society
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
266
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