English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 18th Century - Literary Criticism, Language & Linguistics, Language & Culture, British Literature - Reference
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Overview
Eleven contemporary writers and academics analyze the place of Scotland's best-loved poet in relation to literary and social institutions since the eighteenth century. From "Burns and God" to "Burns and Sex", the essays reflect upon why Burns's work has acquired worldwide cultural importance. Nobel prize winner Seamus Heaney, novelist A. L. Kennedy, poet Douglas Dunn and literary historian Marilyn Butler are among the impressive array of contributors to this lively volume.-The essays in Robert Burns and Cultural Authoritydo much to assist an understanding of the complexities and uncertainties of Burns' patriotism. -Times Literary Supplement
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Drawing very substantially from a 1996 lecture series delivered at a number of venues in Scotland and England, 11 essays examine how sly Robbie thumbed a poetic nose at the church, language, literati, kings, governments, and his own best interests for as long as he drew breath, and was then immediately transformed into a posthumous patron for a bewildering array of causes. Among the topics are women and homosexuals, the aesthetics and politics of metrical forms, the American and French revolutions, and the conflation by some later writers of Burns with God. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
February 1, 1997
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780877455783