The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures

Sarah Dunnigan; Suzanne Gilbert

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures

Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert

In the series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748645411

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About this book

Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooks

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 Features

Explores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singers
Examines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and English
Draws 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 Henderson
Guides readers through some of the key theoretical and conceptual issues in the field
Inclusive of Gaelic, Scots and English traditions
Broad historical coverage from late medieval to the contemporary

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Introduction Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Roots of Living Tradition Margaret Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. Genre Emily Lyle, Valentina Bold and Ian Russell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3. Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures Lizanne Henderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
4. Transmission James Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
5. ‘Tradition’ and Literature in the Medieval Period John McNamara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
6. Vernacular Gaelic Tradition Robert Dunbar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
7. The Early Modern Period Sarah Dunnigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
8. The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland Anja Gunderloch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
9. Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism Valentina Bold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
10. Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century Katherine Campbell and Kirsteen McCue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
11. Tradition and Scottish Romanticism Suzanne Gilbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
12. Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island Folklore Jason Marc Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
13. Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature Michael Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
14. The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival Corey Gibson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
15. Continuing the Living Tradition Margaret Bennett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Endnotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Further Reading Linden Bicket Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: August 20, 2013
ISBN: 9780748645411