Especially at the beginning, when the action is set in Kinnradie (via Chris’s memories) and then in Segget, the narrator is collective.

This and the frequent usage of commas recaptures the constant flow of someone’s thoughts and neighbours gossiping about each other and is directly addressed to the reader. “Sorrow gin the Sheriff were sodden-sodden and supped in his brew!” ( Cloud Howe Proem).Īnother example confirming the fact that Gibbon wanted his readers to take an active part in the course of events is the figures´ use of spoken Scots. 2)Īlliteration : Alliteration is a successful rhetoric device, but it works only when it is read aloud so we may presume that it was meant to be read aloud for the common people ( Cloud Howe Proem p. “And it moved his heart, and he thought it an omen, in his own far land there were camps like that and he swore that if he should survive the battle he'd come back to this place and claim grant of its land.”( Cloud Howe Proem p. Syndeton : enumerating ideas, with the usage of ‘and’ example Here are some of the biblical literary devices which can be found in Cloud Howe : He wanted to attract his readers' attention and many of them were common, religious people. The reason for which Gibbon used stylistic means of the Bible may be simple. Though Lewis Grassic Gibbon presented rather anti-religious attitudes during his life, it is worth mentioning that he recognised the Bible as a literary source. It is the first of its kind at our department and hopefully it will inspire more to come in the near future.įeatures of the language in Cloud Howe and Grey Granite The aim of the project is to analyse the works of James Leslie Mitchell (“Lewis Grassic Gibbon”) 1901-1935, Scottish novelist and essayist, author of the trilogy A Scots Quair (1932 Cloud Howe 1933 Grey Granite 1934). at the Department of English at Szczecin University. The following students’ research project spanned two terms (winter 2013/14 and summer 2014) and was run by MA Second Year students under the guidance of dr. (with a focus on Cloud Howe and Grey Granite )Ī research project by students of the Department of English, University of Szczecin, Poland

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