Selected Essays on Scottish Language and Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Allan H. MacLaineSteven R. McKenna E. Mellen Press, 1992 - 271 Seiten This is a selection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field of Scottish studies, covering the literary traditions of Scotland from the ancient poetry of the picts to Scots translations of Italian poems in the 20th century. |
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... attempt the high style , but always sink bathetically to the level of his dunghill . The cock is never aware of the ... attempts to impart , but instead his essential message reflects certain moral and intellectual limits that for the ...
... attempt the high style , but always sink bathetically to the level of his dunghill . The cock is never aware of the ... attempts to impart , but instead his essential message reflects certain moral and intellectual limits that for the ...
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... attempts to drive the point home to us that , for such a character as the wether , no matter if the motive is arrogant or heroic ( assuming there's a difference ) , any attempt to be other than what nature ordains leads inexorably to ...
... attempts to drive the point home to us that , for such a character as the wether , no matter if the motive is arrogant or heroic ( assuming there's a difference ) , any attempt to be other than what nature ordains leads inexorably to ...
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... attempt to replicate the rhythmical patterns , nor even the lineation , of the originals ( La donzelletta vien dalla " The lassie comes back frae the fields " ) , but produces a naturally campagna flowing Scots , line breaks ...
... attempt to replicate the rhythmical patterns , nor even the lineation , of the originals ( La donzelletta vien dalla " The lassie comes back frae the fields " ) , but produces a naturally campagna flowing Scots , line breaks ...
Inhalt
Henrysons Construction of his Audience | 13 |
David Parkinson Prescriptions for Laughter in Some Middle Scots Poems | 27 |
Scottish Goliard | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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