Scottish Ballads by Emily Lyle
Scotland's ballads represent one of the high-water marks of Scottish literature and are famous as superb expressions of oral culture, reflecting a world of magic, deep passion and history transformed into legend. This selection includes more than eighty of the finest ballads, together with an introduction, notes and glosses. The versions come from the last three centuries-from the time of Burns and Scott, who were among the earliest collectors, up to the present day. Although the ballads are anonymous in a way, the singers themselves determine the versions we have, by a process of selection, interpretation and refashioning. Wherever possible, this edition includes the names of the singers, many of whom were women. An internationally recognised ballad scholar, Emily Lyle is a research fellow at the School of Scottish Studies in the University of Edinburgh, and is general editor of The Grieg-Duncan Folk song Collection.
Emily Lyle is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh and has been engaged in exploring custom and belief, mythology and folk narratives, and ballads and songs, at this university since 1970. Her many publications include Archaic Cosmos: Polarity, Space and Time (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1990) and Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007). She is President of the Traditional Cosmology Society and the Ritual Year Working Group of SIEF (Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore) and is a Director of the International Association for Comparative Mythology. She received an MA (Hons) from the University of St Andrews in 1954 and a PhD from the University of Leeds in 1967, and has held Fellowships at the Radcliffe (later Bunting) Institute and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University; the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh; and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780862414771 |
| ISBN 10 | 0862414776 |
| Title | Scottish Ballads |
| Author | Emily Lyle |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2001-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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