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

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

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Author / Creator:	Coira, M. Pía.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, c2012.
Description:	xxv, [1], 438 p. ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Scottish Gaelic poetry -- History and criticism. Political poetry, Scottish Gaelic -- History and criticism. Scottish Gaelic literature -- Social aspects -- History. Political poetry, Scottish Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic poetry. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9118392

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ISBN:	9781780460031 1780460031
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-393) and indexes.
Summary:	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.

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Call Number:	PB1607 .C65 2012
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