Over the past twenty years J. A. Cuddon's Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory has become firmly established as a classic work of reference. Now in its fourth edition, complete with many new entries and insights, it remains the most comprehensive and accessible work of its kind and constitutes essential reading for students, teachers and general readers alike.

Inside Old English: Essays in Honour of Bruce Mitchell gives readers a comprehensive insight into the world of Old English.

• Consists of a series of original essays written by prominent specialists in the field in honour of the eminent Oxford scholar, Bruce Mitchell (co-author of the best-selling textbook A Guide to Old English, 6th edition, Blackwell, 2001).
• Encourages readers to engage with the literary, cultural, intellectual, religious and historical contexts of Old English texts.
• Explores the problems scholars face in interpreting and editing Old English texts.
• Highlights the essential secondary literature for each topic.

Each of the contributors writes in a straightforward and authoritative style, drawing out connections between different contexts and pointing readers towards the essential secondary literature for each topic.

The Essential Gaelic (Scottish)-English Dictionary

In the present volume the aim has been to present as rich a cross-section of the Gaelic language as possible in the space available, giving due weight both to the new contexts of our times and to the riches of the past, as well as to both colloquial and more formal language.

The registers, styles and contexts represented in the dictionary include: vulgar, familiar, colloquial, formal and traditional words and expressions; examples drawn from modem poetry, modem and traditional song (an area that attracts many learners to the language), proverbs and sayings and, occasionally, placenames; the more common vocabulary of administration, politics and government, journalism and information technology also figures here.

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This volume complements the same compiler's Essential Gaelic-English Dictionary, published by Birlinn in 2001. The intention has been to make available, in a format that is pleasant to handle, a generous proportion of "essential" or core Gaelic. For this reason much of the material given is common to the two volumes, and can thus be accessed from the starting point of either English or Gaelic.

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