Andrew Lang lecture
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The Andrew Lang Lecture series is held at the University of St. Andrews. The lectures are named for Andrew Lang
. The most famous lecture in this series is that given by J. R. R. Tolkien
in 1939, entitled 'On Fairy-Stories
'.
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...
. The most famous lecture in this series is that given by J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
in 1939, entitled 'On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories
"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939. It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in...
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The Lectures
- December 1927 - 'Andrew Lang', by George Gordon.
- 1928 - 'Andrew Lang's work for Homer', by Alexander Shewan.
- 1929 - 'The raw material of religion', by R. R. Marett.
- 1930 - 'Andrew Lang as historian', by Robert S. RaitRobert RaitSir Robert Sangster Rait Kt. CBE DL was a Scottish historian, Historiographer Royal and Principal of the University of Glasgow.-Early life:...
. - 1931 - 'Andrew Lang and the Maid of France', by Louis CazamianLouis CazamianLouis François Cazamian was a French academic and literary critic.He was the author of many books in both French and English dealing with English literature, including 'A History of English Literature' , 'Le Roman Social en Angleterre' , and 'The Development of English Humor'...
- 1932 - 'Andrew Lang and the Border', by John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir).
- 6 December 1933 - 'Lang, Lockhart and biography', by H.J.C. Grierson.
- 21 November 1934 - 'Andrew Lang and the House of Stuart', by John Duncan.
- 1937 - 'Andrew Lang's poetry', by A. Blyth Webster.
- 8 March 1939 - 'On Fairy-StoriesOn Fairy-Stories"On Fairy-Stories" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy-story as a literary form. It was initially written for presentation by Tolkien as the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, in 1939. It first appeared in print, with some enhancement, in 1947, in...
', by J. R. R. TolkienJ. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,... - 7 May 1947 - 'Andrew Lang the poet', by Gilbert MurrayGilbert MurrayGeorge Gilbert Aimé Murray, OM was an Australian born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century...
. - 5 April 1948 - 'Law and custom', by Hugh Pattisan MacMillan, Baron MacMillan.
- 11 May 1949 - 'Andrew Lang and the casket letter controversy' by J. B. Black.
- 11 May 1950 - 'Andrew Lang and journalism', by J. B. Salmond
- 25 April 1951 - 'Andrew Lang : his place in anthropology', by Herbert J. Rose.
- 14 November 1951 - 'Andrew Lang, John KnoxJohn KnoxJohn Knox was a Scottish clergyman and a leader of the Protestant Reformation who brought reformation to the church in Scotland. He was educated at the University of St Andrews or possibly the University of Glasgow and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1536...
and Scottish Presbyterianism', by William Croft Dickinson. - 16 February 1955 - 'Homer and his forerunners', by Maurice BowraMaurice BowraSir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.-Birth and boyhood:...
. - 14 November 1956 - 'Shakespeare's Scotland', by James Fergusson.
- 8 February 1978 - 'The writing of Scottish history in the time of Andrew Lang', R.G. Cant.
- 26 January 1988 - 'The Scottish paradox' by Gordon Wilson
- 29 April 2004 - 'Hamlet and the Tables of Memory' by Peter Stallybrass