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Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden Aug 2013

Textual Messages: Scholarly Editions And Their Role In Literary Criticism, Alison Lumsden

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the editing of Scottish literary texts, specifically recent editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and argues that textual investigation is not simply technical and preliminary but an integral part of literary criticism.


A "Quarrell Sett Out In Metre": Towards A New Edition Of Scottish Reformation Satirical Literature, Tricia A. Mcelroy Aug 2013

A "Quarrell Sett Out In Metre": Towards A New Edition Of Scottish Reformation Satirical Literature, Tricia A. Mcelroy

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the issues of definition and genre in preparing a new edition for the Scottish Text Society of satirical poems (and prose) from the Scottish Reformation period, and also comments on decisions about editing Scottish Renaissance manuscript poetry.


Editing The Letters Of A Scottish Author, Gillian Hughes Aug 2013

Editing The Letters Of A Scottish Author, Gillian Hughes

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the issues and techniques in finding, researching, transcribing, editing, formatting and annotating the letters of a nineteenth-century Scottish author, drawing on experience in editing The Collected Letters of James Hogg, 3 vols. (Edinburgh University Press, 2004-2008).


The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan Aug 2013

The Ssl Symposium On Editing: A Commentary, Ian Duncan

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reviews and comments on the preceding essays in the SSL Symposium on Editing Scottish Literary Texts, setting them in the wider context of critical discussion, responding to some of the earlier comments comparing the recent collected editions of Walter Scott and James Hogg, and arguing that the "authentically democratic" work of making a fuller range of Scottish literary texts available moves critical discussion forward from the "tedious zero-sum game" of debating a static canon.


The Renaissance Uses Of A Medieval Seneca: Murder, Stoicism, And Gender In The Marginalia Of Glasgow Hunter 297, Theo Van Heijnsbergen Aug 2013

The Renaissance Uses Of A Medieval Seneca: Murder, Stoicism, And Gender In The Marginalia Of Glasgow Hunter 297, Theo Van Heijnsbergen

Studies in Scottish Literature

Examines, transcribes, and annotates the extensive marginalia in a medieval manuscript of Seneca's tragedies made by Sir William Sinclair of Mey (1582-1643), exploring some of the links between the original text, the marginal additions, the events of Sinclair's life, and the culture of Renaissance Scotland.


For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol Aug 2013

For "The Prosperity Of Scotland": Mediating National Improvement In The Scots Magazine, 1739-49, Alex Benchimol

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the early years the the Scots Magazine, founded in Edinburgh in 1739, examining the aims of its publishers, and the development of its political and economic views before and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, in light of contemporary Scottish ideas of social and economic improvement.


Wraiths, Rhetoric, And "The Sin Of Rhyme"" The Shaping Of The Burns Of The Kilmarnock Edition, Kenneth G. Simpson Aug 2013

Wraiths, Rhetoric, And "The Sin Of Rhyme"" The Shaping Of The Burns Of The Kilmarnock Edition, Kenneth G. Simpson

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses rhetorical self-consciousness in letters and poems of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), in contrast to earlier simplified romantic portrayals, and draws a comparison between Burns and Montaigne.


The Modern Athenians: The Edinburgh Review In The Knowledge Economy Of The Early Nineteenth Century, William Christie Aug 2013

The Modern Athenians: The Edinburgh Review In The Knowledge Economy Of The Early Nineteenth Century, William Christie

Studies in Scottish Literature

Discusses the role of intellectual periodicals, specifically the edinburgh Review, in creating and representing the interdisciplinary knowledge economy of early 19th century Edinburgh, and proposes the term "the Periodical Enlightenment" to represent this distinctive phase in Scottish culture.


Deficiencies: Mental Disability And The Imagination In Scott's Waverley Novels, Colin Carman Aug 2013

Deficiencies: Mental Disability And The Imagination In Scott's Waverley Novels, Colin Carman

Studies in Scottish Literature

Argues that Walter Scott's novels, especially Waverley and The Heart of Midlothian, represent a shift in Anglo-scottish attitudes towards the mentally ill, and that mental disability, operating in Scott's novels under the guises of idiocy and insanity, was integral to Scott’s articulations of the romantic imagination.


Preventing Revolution: Cato Street, Bonnymuir, And Cathkin, John Gardner Aug 2013

Preventing Revolution: Cato Street, Bonnymuir, And Cathkin, John Gardner

Studies in Scottish Literature

Argues, from a range of evidence including popular poetry and woodcuts, that popular risings in 1820 in Scotland, England, and Ireland were produced as a coordinated strategy by central government in the aftermath of Peterloo to instigate (through agents provocateurs) local popular uprisings and then brutally suppress them, with show trials and public executions, in order to deter or forestall larger social unrest or revolution.


On Vernacular Scottishness And Its Limits: Devolution And The Spectacle Of "Voice", Scott Hames Aug 2013

On Vernacular Scottishness And Its Limits: Devolution And The Spectacle Of "Voice", Scott Hames

Studies in Scottish Literature

This essay asks why vernacular cultural expression has been so central to discussion of Scottish national autonomy, traces the literary and political contours of vernacular discourse in the period of Scottish devolution, and concludes with a provisional sketch of three "vernacularities" (democratic, romantic and identitarian) and with reflections on how literary criticism might move beyond the "representative” paradigms of vernacular voice to engage with voice as a principle of agency and action.


The Missing Manuscript Of Robert Burns's "Patriarch" Letter, Gerard Carruthers, Pauline Mackay Aug 2013

The Missing Manuscript Of Robert Burns's "Patriarch" Letter, Gerard Carruthers, Pauline Mackay

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reports the discovery of a previously-lost early transcription of a Burns letter, held by a private owner in Dumfries, records its textual variants, and discusses its relation to the previously-known versions on which editors have had to rely.


Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane Aug 2013

Sir Walter Scott And John Clare: An Unpublished Letter, Ian D. Kane

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reports an autograph letter written by Walter Scott, now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, dated May 31, 1820, and sent to Captain Markham Shirwill, responding to Shirwill's request that Scott foster Clare's writing career; along with a transcription and illustration of the letter, the note discusses what was previously known about this incident and its context based on the letters of Clare.


Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick Scott Aug 2013

Robert Burns, James Johnson, And The Manuscript Of "The German Lairdie", Patrick Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Reports, illustrates, and assesses a fragment of manuscript music now in the G. Ross Roy Collection at the University of South Carolina, for Burns's song "The German Lairdie," headed in Burns's hand, and possibly with the music in his hand also. A note with the fragment, which was exhibited as Burns's autograph in 1896, states that it had been sent by Burns to the Edinburgh editor and publisher James Johnson, for inclusion in his Scots Musical Museum.


Court Poetry In Late Medieval England And Scotland, By Anthony Hasler, Holly A. Crocker Aug 2013

Court Poetry In Late Medieval England And Scotland, By Anthony Hasler, Holly A. Crocker

Studies in Scottish Literature

Review of Court Poetry in Late Medieval England and Scotland, by Anthony Hasler.


Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott Aug 2013

Books Received, John T. Knox, Patrick G. Scott

Studies in Scottish Literature

Publication details and short descriptions of over thirty recently-published books in Scottish literature and related fields.


"And The Roadside Fire": Portrayals Of Home Through National Song In Stevenson's Scottish Adventures, Christy Danelle Di Frances Aug 2013

"And The Roadside Fire": Portrayals Of Home Through National Song In Stevenson's Scottish Adventures, Christy Danelle Di Frances

Studies in Scottish Literature

This article considers allusions to popular Scottish song in Stevenson’s work, especially in Kidnapped, to interrogate Stevenson’s broader configuration of home, as both personal and engaged with the Scottish national consciousness, exploring how he preserves home within his modern adventure aesthetic through reference to popular Scottish song, ballads and folk songs.


Contributors To Ssl 39 Aug 2013

Contributors To Ssl 39

Studies in Scottish Literature

No abstract provided.


Reflections And Prospects About The Relationship Between Master Thesis And Design Project In Interior Architectural Education, Ann Petermans, Jan Vanrie, Kris Pint, Koenraad Van Cleempoel Aug 2013

Reflections And Prospects About The Relationship Between Master Thesis And Design Project In Interior Architectural Education, Ann Petermans, Jan Vanrie, Kris Pint, Koenraad Van Cleempoel

Learn X Design Conference Series

The Bologna process, initiated in 1999, propelled an ongoing reform of the European higher education. One of many processes is the integration of design schools – formerly belonging to a polytechnic or beaux-arts tradition – into academia. It presents challenges to universities and design schools alike. Commonly, many debates centre around the issue of research: output media, ‘measurability’ of output and the relationship between research and education. In this paper we would like to focus on the latter by discussing the set-up and organisation of our master programme in interior architecture. Reflecting about existing material of our students stimulated us …


Notes On Contributors Aug 2013

Notes On Contributors

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Brief biographical notes on contributing translators.


Pétanque By Emmanuel Verot, Randy Schwartz Aug 2013

Pétanque By Emmanuel Verot, Randy Schwartz

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Translated from the French with commentary by Randy Schwartz.


Adjuration By Alexander Pushkin, J. M. Mcbirnie Aug 2013

Adjuration By Alexander Pushkin, J. M. Mcbirnie

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Translated from the Russian with commentary by J.M. McBirnie.


Untitled (2 October 1910), Untitled (6 October 1910), And Untitled (7 October 1910) By Natsume Sōseki, Erik Lofgren Aug 2013

Untitled (2 October 1910), Untitled (6 October 1910), And Untitled (7 October 1910) By Natsume Sōseki, Erik Lofgren

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Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Erik Lofgren.


A Life By Wadih Saadeh, Ghada Mourad Aug 2013

A Life By Wadih Saadeh, Ghada Mourad

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Translated from the Arabic with commentary by Ghada Mourad.


Cat, Heads, It Takes All Sorts, And Okinawan Scene By Yamanokuchi Baku, Daryl Maude Aug 2013

Cat, Heads, It Takes All Sorts, And Okinawan Scene By Yamanokuchi Baku, Daryl Maude

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Translated from the Japanese by Daryl Maude.


Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

Commentary On Translating Heinrich Heine, Charles Baudelaire, And Martial, Susan Mclean

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Notes on translating poems in German, French, and Latin into English by Susan McLean.


Martial 11.99 And Martial 2.53, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

Martial 11.99 And Martial 2.53, Susan Mclean

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Translated from the Latin by Susan McLean.


The Cat By Charles Baudelaire, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

The Cat By Charles Baudelaire, Susan Mclean

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Translated from the French by Susan McLean.


A Woman By Heinrich Heine, Susan Mclean Aug 2013

A Woman By Heinrich Heine, Susan Mclean

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Translated from the German by Susan McLean.


A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith Aug 2013

A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith

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Translated from the Russian by Claude Clayton Smith and Alexander Vaschenko with commentary by Claude Clayton Smith.