Title The Edinburgh companion to Scottish traditional literatures / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert

Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) Series Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Contents Title page; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE The Roots of Living Tradition; CHAPTER TWO Genre; CHAPTER THREE Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures; CHAPTER FOUR Transmission; CHAPTER FIVE 'Tradition' and Literature in the Medieval Period; CHAPTER SIX Vernacular Gaelic Tradition; CHAPTER SEVEN The Early Modern Period; CHAPTER EIGHT The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland; CHAPTER NINE Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism; CHAPTER TEN Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century; CHAPTER ELEVEN Tradition and Scottish Romanticism CHAPTER TWELVE Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island FolkloreCHAPTER THIRTEEN Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival; CHAPTER FIFTEEN Continuing the Living Tradition; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Folk literature, Scottish -- History and criticism Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic -- History and criticism Folk songs -- Scotland -- History and criticism Scottish literature -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern. Folk literature, Scottish Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic Folk songs Scottish literature Scotland Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971- editor. Gilbert, Suzanne, editor. LC no. 2013362066 ISBN 9780748645411 0748645411 9780748684595 074868459X 0748645403 9780748645404 074864539X 9780748645398

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