The Shepherd's Calendar (Collected Works of James Hogg) - Hardcover

Hogg, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074860474X ISBN 13: 9780748604746

Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR, 1995

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James Hogg is one of the acknowledged masters of the short story. Some of his best stories appeared in The Shepherd's Calendar, a work of the 1820s in which he sets out to re-create on paper the manner and the content of the traditional oral storytelling of Ettrick Forest, the remote and mountainous sheep-farming district in which he grew up. Like Hogg's masterpiece The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, several of the stories from The Shepherd's Calendar deal disturbingly and hauntingly with the supernatural, and explore psychological depths with a remarkable insight and intensity. The Shepherd's Calendar also draws on Hogg's experiences as a young shepherd in the 1790s as it produces a convincing and very human picture of the dangers, the pleasures, and the tensions of the lives of the rural poor in Scotland in the years that followed the French Revolution. This paperback is based on the acclaimed hardback edition of The Shepherd's Calendar for the Stirling / South Carolina Col

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James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

Douglas Mack is Formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling

Douglas S. Mack is Reader in English at the University of Stirling.

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Never before published as Hogg originally intended, this new edition of The Shepherd's Calendar reaffirms his collection of thirteen rural tales and anecdotes as a major landmark in the history of Scottish literature. Capturing the flavour and style of Border story-telling, they gradually build into a coherent yet intriguing portrait of pastoral life, in which fact blurs with faerie and where narrative authority is increasingly called into question.

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• Verlag: EDINBURGH UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 074860474X
• ISBN 13: 9780748604746
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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