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Critical Essays on Robert Burns: Robert Burns
Contributor(s): McGuirk, Carol (Author)

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 ISBN: 0783800452     ISBN-13: 9780783800455
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
OUR PRICE: $95.55  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: November 1998
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Annotation: The full range of literary traditions comes to life in the Twayne Critical Essays Series. Volume editors have carefully selected critical essays that represent the full spectrum of controversies, trends and methodologies relating to each author's work. Essays include writings from the author's native country and abroad, with interpretations from the time they were writing, through the present day.

Each volume includes:

-- An introduction providing the reader with a lucid overview of criticism from its beginnings -- illuminating controversies, evaluating approaches and sorting out the schools of thought

-- The most influential reviews and the best reprinted scholarly essays

-- A section devoted exclusively to reviews and reactions by the subject's contemporaries

-- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series

-- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments

-- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews

-- A name and subject index

Click for more in this series: Twayne's Critical Essays on British Literature
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | American - African American
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.6
LCCN: 98030504
Age Level: 0-NA
Grade Level: PreK
Series: Twayne's Critical Essays on British Literature
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.36" W x 9.55" L (1.40 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Large Print
 
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Publisher Description:

Essays address the works of Robert Burns (1759-1796), and discuss, among other things, possible lost radical poems by Burns, Burnss biculturalism, his songs, his satires, his use of the Scottish flyting tradition, the nINET_HTMLeenth centurys disturbing cult of Burns, the poets self-representation in letters and poems, his representations of the body, William Wordsworths hostility to Burns, Burnss nationalism, the extraordinary cultural impact of The Cotters Saturday Night.PIM31-MAY-1801
 
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