Adoption, Adaptation, Reformation: Transnational narratives and their audiences in 'Renaissance' Scotland

1603年前的苏格兰文学的“黄金时代”产生了具有煽动性的文本，其知识分子和元小说的复杂性表明了复杂的作者和观众。苏格兰作家改编大陆文本的方式，鼓励读者参与发展文本意义，同时引导他们走向隐含的解释。然而，这种作者与观众的互动仍然没有得到研究。我的研究评估了选定的文本如何解决他们的观众的批判性参与的能力，演变的对话模式的解释，并探讨了欧洲-苏格兰文化的同化到自信的白话文学所支持的作品罗伯特亨利森，加文道格拉斯和约翰斯图尔特，这-到今天-区分一个国家的文本社区

The pre-1603 'Golden Age' of Scottish literature produced provocative texts whose intellectual and meta-fictional complexity indicates sophisticated authors and audiences. Scottish authors adapted Continental texts in ways that encouraged readers' participation in developing textual meaning, while simultaneously directing them towards implied interpretations. This author-audience interaction, however, remains unexamined. My research assesses how selected texts addressed their audiences' capacity for critical engagement, evolving a dialogical mode of interpretation, and examines the assimilation of European-Scottish cultures into the confident vernacular literature espoused by the works of Robert Henryson, Gavin Douglas, and John Stewart, which - to this day - distinguishes a national textual community