Download or read book Scott the Rhymer written by Nancy Moore Goslee and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewed arguments over the definition of Romanticism warrant a new look at the narrative poetry of Sir Walter Scott. Nancy Moore Goslee's study, the first full treatment of Scott's poems in many years, will do for his poetry what Judith Wilt's book has done for his novels. Already a subtle reader of the high Romantics and their celebrations of the visionary imagination, Goslee draws upon several recent critical developments for this study of Scott: a growing tendency among critics of his novels to see romance as a positive strength, the broader development of narrative theory, and feminist theory. Like Thomas the Rhymer, the half-historical, half- mythic minstrel who rides off with the elfin queen, Scott's poems repeatedly accept the world of romance and yet challenge it, often wittily, with an array of hermeneutic perspectives upon its function. The perspectives Goslee considers most fully are the development of poetry from a communal, oral performance to a written, published document; the larger, more violent development of Scottish and British history from feudal to modern cultures; and the repeated contrast, in that succession of cultures, between the limited, passive role of most actual women and their active, powerful role as elfin queen or enchantress in the romance. As if drawn toward yet simultaneously repelled by such women, Scott alternates between poems in which enchantresses seem to control their worlds and those in which women are only pawns, desirable for the land they inherit. The poems of the latter group are more realistically historical in plot, turning upon major battles; those of the former are more romantic and magical. Yet both follow similar narrative patterns derived from medieval and especially Renaissance romance. Both, too, show a wandering in more primitive, violent societies which delays the rational, gradual progress seen as cultural salvation by Enlightenment historians.
Download or read book Scott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Possible Scotlands written by Caroline McCracken-Flesher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
Download or read book The Scott Country written by William Shillinglaw Crockett and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scott s Poetical Works Complete Illustrated written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhymer s Family a Collection of Bantlings Verses written by Thomas Watson (of Arbroath.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Berwick the Borders and the Land of Scott or the Tourist s guide to the vale of the Tweed c With plates and a map written by County of BERWICK and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footsteps of Scott written by William Shillinglaw Crockett and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Border Magazine written by Nicholas Dickson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scott Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter written by S. Oliver and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people living on and around them. The author discusses Scott's edited collection of Border Ballads, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and his narrative poetry, and Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , cantos 1 and 2, his Eastern Tales, and his late, utopian South-Sea poem The Island. This fascinating study provides a detailed exegesis of the importance of borders to these leading poets and the public, during the early years of the Nineteenth-Century, with an emphasis on reciprocal literary influences, and on attitudes towards cultural instability.
Download or read book The Monarch of the Glen written by Sir Edwin Landseer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money and, by the middle of the century, making him the best-known artist in Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Angel in the Sun written by Gerald Finley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner was deeply affected by the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and the conflicts and accomplishments of his society. He wove these strands into the dense fabric of the historical pictures he created, pictures that were extremely varied, complex, original, and controversial. In Angel in the Sun Gerald Finley untangles the various thematic strands running through Turner's art, including the intersection of private and public histories, classical and biblical history and contemporary events, and science and religion, and shows how Turner's use of light and colour played an important role in conveying these ideas. Angel in the Sun includes over 130 illustrations in colour and black and white that reveal Turner's remarkable achievement as a painter of historical subjects. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the book will appeal not only to art historians and landscape theorists but also to historians of science and literature.
Download or read book The history of civilisation in Scotland written by John MACKINTOSH (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Border Counties Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Come Hither A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of All Ages written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was an anthology of poems and prose edited by an award-winning author Walter John de la Mare, an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. It has a frame story and can be read on several levels. The book was first published in 1923 and was a remarkable success. Alongside children's literature, it includes a selection of the leading Georgian poets (from de la Mare's perspective).
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott written by Fiona Robertson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
