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A Fiddler's Tale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 489

A Fiddler's Tale

Companion CD contains 13 recordings from 1942-1952.

Books in Scotland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Books in Scotland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Wingéd Darkness and Other Stories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Wingéd Darkness and Other Stories

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A Companion to Scottish Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 692

A Companion to Scottish Literature

A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses t...

Books Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 522

Books Ireland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Between Ruin and Renewal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Between Ruin and Renewal

  • Categories: Art

Smith takes a provocative look at the fascinating and beautiful landscapes painted by Austrian artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918), renowned for his intensely confrontational portraits, self-portraits, erotic images, and allegories. 90 illustrations, 50 in color.

Glorious Perversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Glorious Perversity

A study of the decadent literary movements in England and France, focusing upon such poets and authors as Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde.

The Call of the Cormorant
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

The Call of the Cormorant

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-04-11
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  • Publisher: Saraband

“Full of memorable images and singing lines of prose.” Sarah Waters on Donald S. Murray's previous work From the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestseller As the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable “unreliable biography” of serial swindler Karl Einarsson. As a child of the late nineteenth century in the North Atlantic’s windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands, Karl Einarsson grows up believing he is superior to his peers, destined for a life of art and adventure. As soon as he is old enough, he sets out for Denmark and begins his own reinvention. Once untethered from his past, Einarsson’s lies begin to spiral. He begins a life of serial scamming, swindling everyone fro...

Translating Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Translating Life

The identification of reading with translation has a distinguished literary pedigree. This volume, comprising many individual but conceptually interrelated studies, sets out to multiply perspectives on the concept of translation.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values

The ninth volume of this annual journal continues the consideration of the relations of European with non-European literatures begun in volume 8. It brings the series of special bibliographies on the history of comparative literary studies in the UK up to 1965, and contains the annual bibliography of comparative literature, covering 1984.