Critical Essays on Robert Burns: Robert Burns Contributor(s): McGuirk, Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0783800452 ISBN-13: 9780783800455 Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: November 1998 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contemporaries -- Original essays, new translations and revisions commissioned especially for the series -- Previously unpublished materials such as interviews, lost letters and manuscript fragments -- A bibliography of the subject's writings and interviews -- A name and subject index |
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 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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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