Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language (SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language & Literature)

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 spread of written Scots to Northern Ireland, the United States of America and Australia. Many of the essays respond to and extend the scholarship of J. Derrick McClure, whose considerable impact on Scottish literary and linguistic studies is surveyed and assessed in this volume.

The present collection provides a 360-degree overview of the variegated and multidisciplinary nature of the language that has been Derrick McClure s lifetime passion; in this sense it is an undeniable success which the honorand may find to his taste, and constitutes a most suitable tribute to his brilliant and rich career. - Edoardo McKenna, University of Aberdeen, in: ASLA - Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2014, pp. 161-171 Ay, weill; as ye wul hae jaloused, this is a richt challenging and rewairdin wark, containin muntains o leir an a warld o deep insicht; weill warth the layin doun o 65 euros! Kenneth D. Farrow, in Lallans 84 (2014), pp. 121-128"

"The present collection provides a 360-degree overview of the variegated and multidisciplinary nature of the language that has been Derrick McClure's lifetime passion; in this sense it is an undeniable success which the honorand may find to his taste, and constitutes a most suitable tribute to his brilliant and rich career." - Edoardo McKenna, University of Aberdeen, in: ASLA - Association for Scottish Literary Studies 2014, pp. 161-171 "Ay, weill; as ye wul hae jaloused, this is a richt challenging and rewairdin wark, containin muntains o leir an a warld o deep insicht; weill warth the layin doun o 65 euros!" - Kenneth D. Farrow, in Lallans 84 (2014), pp. 121-128