By poetic authority : the rhetoric of panegyric in Gaelic poetry of Scotland to c.1700

• Tác giả: M. Pía Coira
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Thông tin xuất bản: Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, 2012
• Mô tả vật lý: xxv, 438 p. ; , 24 cm
• Bộ sưu tập: Tham khảo
• ID: 350280
• Chủ đề: 1. Political poetry, Scottish Gaelic--History and criticism; 2. Scottish Gaelic literature--Social aspects; 3. Scottish Gaelic poetry--History and criticism

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-393) and indexes

Tóm tắt

A survey of medieval and early modern Scottish Gaelic poetry which studies the fixed set of literary conventions by which the court poets gave sanction to their patrons' leadership, an essential task which served to preserve the cohesion of society. This book is the first systematic collection and classification of this rhetoric of leadership