Author: Nancy Moore Goslee
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813194628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Renewed arguments over the definition of Romanticism warrant a new look at the narrative poetry of Sir Walter Scott. Nancy Moore Goslee's study, the first full treatment of Scott's poems in many years, will do for his poetry what Judith Wilt's book has done for his novels. Already a subtle reader of the high Romantics and their celebrations of the visionary imagination, Goslee draws upon several recent critical developments for this study of Scott: a growing tendency among critics of his novels to see romance as a positive strength, the broader development of narrative theory, and feminist theory. Like Thomas the Rhymer, the half-historical, half- mythic minstrel who rides off with the elfin queen, Scott's poems repeatedly accept the world of romance and yet challenge it, often wittily, with an array of hermeneutic perspectives upon its function. The perspectives Goslee considers most fully are the development of poetry from a communal, oral performance to a written, published document; the larger, more violent development of Scottish and British history from feudal to modern cultures; and the repeated contrast, in that succession of cultures, between the limited, passive role of most actual women and their active, powerful role as elfin queen or enchantress in the romance. As if drawn toward yet simultaneously repelled by such women, Scott alternates between poems in which enchantresses seem to control their worlds and those in which women are only pawns, desirable for the land they inherit. The poems of the latter group are more realistically historical in plot, turning upon major battles; those of the former are more romantic and magical. Yet both follow similar narrative patterns derived from medieval and especially Renaissance romance. Both, too, show a wandering in more primitive, violent societies which delays the rational, gradual progress seen as cultural salvation by Enlightenment historians.
Author: William Shillinglaw Crockett
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Author: Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190290870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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No thanks to Walter Scott, Scotland has at last regained its parliament. If this statement sounds extreme, it echoes the tone that criticism of Scott and his culture has taken through the twentieth century. Scott is supposed to have provided stories of the past that allowed his country no future--that pushed it "out of history." Scotland has become a place so absorbed in nostalgia that it could not construct a politics for a changing world. Possible Scotlands disagrees. It argues that the tales Scott told, however romanticized, also provided for a national future. They do not tell the story of a Scotland lost in time and lacking value. Instead they open up a narrative space where the nation is always imaginable. This book reads across Scott's complex characters and plots, his many personae, his interventions in his nation's nineteenth-century politics, to reveal the author as an energetic producer of literary and national culture working to prevent a simple or singular message. Indeed, Scott invites readers into his texts to develop multiple and forward-looking interpretations of a Scotland always in formation. Scott's texts and his nation are alive in their constant retelling. Scott was an author for Scotland's new times.
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Category : Atlanta (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Diego Saglia
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789042004283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Saglia, a scholar of some sort whose academic affiliations are not noted, charts the various ways in which, between the 1810s and 1820s, Spain figured in British literary culture. Mainly concerned with narrative versions of Spain, specifically metrical tales and verse romances, he traces the contours of the Spanish "imaginary" in British Romanticism, offering a cultural geography of Romantic Spain as a space of war involving not only France and Britain or the Spanish and Moorish armies, but ideological conflicts between public and private; republicanism, nationalism, and imperialism; and competing models of masculinity and femininity. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Walter Scott
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Author: William Shillinglaw Crockett
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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![The Rhymer's Family: a Collection of Bantlings. [Verses.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/uYczzEdtNuYC?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Thomas Watson (of Arbroath.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Author: Sir Edwin Landseer
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Money and, by the middle of the century, making him the best-known artist in Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
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Author: County of BERWICK
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Languages : en
Pages : 166
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