Reets

Reets PDF Author: Sheena Blackhall
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Reets

Reets PDF Author: Sheena Blackhall
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
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Fringe of Gold

Fringe of Gold PDF Author: Duncan Glen
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
ISBN: 9781841587042
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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This is the first ever anthology of writing about Fife, a part of Scotland with an immensely rich tradition of history and literature. It gathers together all of the great characters of Scottish history who have acted out their dramas within the famous Kingdom of Fife — St Margaret and Alexander I, James VI and the Earl of Moray, Cardinal Beaton and Archbishop Sharp, Mary Queen of Scots and John Knox. Here too are the many great writers, from Robert Henryson to Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott to Thomas Carlyle, all the way up to Ian Rankin. All walks of life are represented here — the whalers of Kirkcaldy and the miners of Lindsay Colliery; ambulance men and Hammermen; witches and magicians; golfers and distillers. The background to their lives, the fine castles and cottages, pretty villages and scenes of rural beauty are celebrated in wonderfully varied prose and poetry. Anyone who knows and loves Fife will find here a collection of vivid and entertaining writing that unfolds the full splendor of Scotland's 'fringe of gold'.

The New Makars

The New Makars PDF Author: Tom Hubbard
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ISBN: 9780901924957
Category : Scottish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Scotland in Europe

Scotland in Europe PDF Author: Tom Hubbard
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042021004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This volume counters the relative neglect of comparative literature in Scotland by exploring the fortunes of Scottish writing in mainland Europe, and, conversely, the engagement of Scottish literary intellectuals with European texts.

Buchan Words and Ways

Buchan Words and Ways PDF Author: Alexander Fenton
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Sandy Fenton was reared in North-east Scotland, first in the parish of Dumblade, where he started school, and then in Auchterless. It was an entirely rural upbringing. His major fascination was with the way folk worked and the way they spoke, which he records here.

Parapets and Labyrinths

Parapets and Labyrinths PDF Author: Tom Hubbard
Publisher: Grace Note
ISBN: 9781907676239
Category : European poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Tom Hubbard takes us on another poetic tour of Europe, offering a number of translations (or rather transcreations) on the way. Parapets and Labyrinths, a collection of poems mainly in English (but with a significant presence of the Scots language), is a companion volume to The Chagall Winnocks, published by Grace Note Publications in 2011

Growing Up a Woman

Growing Up a Woman PDF Author: Milena Kaličanin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144388474X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural processes in its thematic developments, this volume investigates more recent influences on the female Bildung narrative and the influence of the classic female Bildungsroman on contemporary cultural texts. As a collection of fifteen essays written by international scholars, the book offers a representative sample of the narratives of female development, presenting a variety of genres, including the novel, the short story, autobiography, TV series, and Internet video blogs, and theoretical frameworks, adopting hermeneutic, postcolonial, feminist, and postfeminist perspectives. In its diversity, this volume reveals that, despite the ongoing process of women’s emancipation, the heroine’s struggle with the private/public divide has remained, throughout the twentieth century and in the first decades of the new millennium, a central issue in stories about the female quest for self-definition. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of literary, women and gender studies, particularly those interested in the narratives of female development that represent American and British cultural contexts.

The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop

The Lucky Charm of Major Bessop PDF Author: Tom Hubbard
Publisher: Grace Note
ISBN: 9781907676482
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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A vulnerable and bullied boy vanishes from a boarding-school in an austerely beautiful part of the Scottish county of Fife. A young nurse from the American South encounters love - and culture-clash - at the school. Her beau, a teacher and former army officer, is a tense and troubled man.

The International Companion to Scottish Poetry

The International Companion to Scottish Poetry PDF Author: Carla Sassi
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ISBN: 9781908980151
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland's poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from early medieval texts to contemporary writers, and examines English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots verse.

Ptolemy's Almagest

Ptolemy's Almagest PDF Author: Ptolemy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691002606
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.