Renaissance syntax and subjectivity
Subtitle: ideological contents of Latin and the vernacular in Scottish prose chronicles
By: John C. Leeds.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754658122
Subjects: Scottish prose literature -- Criticism, Textual; Scots language -- To 1700 -- Syntax; Scots language -- Foreign elements -- Latin; Latin language -- Influence on Scots
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sleeping beauty: accusative case, passive voice, and the subject of production; title: Against the vernacular: Ciceronian formalism and the problem of the individual; title: From the ground up: matter, spirit, and the linguistic sign in John Lesley's Chronicles of Stewart Scotland; title: Corpus mysticum: the status of universals in John Mair's Chronicle of Greater Britain.