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Dooble Tongue
Jeffrey Skoblow
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Description for Dooble Tongue
hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 565.
'Dooble Tongue' is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W.N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, then further back to Burns himself, the study of the Scottish tradition is situated in a broad historical context. The focus throughout is on language (particularly Scots), more broadly vernacular literature in relation to culturally elite literary and critical modes- as well as on questions ... Read more
'Dooble Tongue' is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W.N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, then further back to Burns himself, the study of the Scottish tradition is situated in a broad historical context. The focus throughout is on language (particularly Scots), more broadly vernacular literature in relation to culturally elite literary and critical modes- as well as on questions ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9780874137286
SKU
V9780874137286
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99-15
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