Scots.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; J. Derrick McClure: An Appreciation; J. Derrick McClure: List of Publications; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Textual Afterlives: Barbour's Bruce and Hary's Wallace; To bring my language near to the language of men? Dialect and Dialect Use in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Some Observations; Stour or Dour or Clour: An Overview of Scots Usage in Stevenson's Works and Correspondence; Pittin the Word(s) Oot: The Itchy Coo Experience of Publishing in Scots in the Twenty-first CenturyLoanwords in Scots: Some Reflections from LexicographyG. F. Savage-Armstrong's Ballads of Down; Scots in Two Early Ulster Novels; The Linguistic Landscape of Eighteenth-Century South Argyll, as Revealed by Highland Scot Emigrants to North Carolina; Styles of Scots in Australian Literary Texts; How Gavin Douglas Handled Some Well-known Passages of Virgil's Aeneid; Doric Orientalism: James Legge's Translation of the Shi Jin, or Book of Po ...

The skillful use of the Scots language has long been a distinguishing feature of the literatures of Scotland. The essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of the Scots language, past and present, and its written dissemination in poetry, fiction and drama, and in non-literary texts, such as personal letters. They cover aspects of the development of a national literature in the Scots language, and they also give due weight to its international dimension by focusing on translations into Scots from languages as diverse as Greek, Latin and Chinese, and by considering the.