Edinburgh Companion To Liz Lochhead

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Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead

Anne Varty
Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead Book PDF

Author : Anne Varty
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748654734

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Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead by Anne Varty Pdf

Explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century.The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz Lochhead's appointment as Scotland's second Scots Makar, this Companion examines her poetry, theatre, visual and performing arts, and broadcast media. It also discusses her theatre for children and young people, her translations for the stage as well as translations of her texts into foreign languages and cultures.Several poets offer commentaries on the influence of Liz Lochhead on their own practice while academic critics from America, Europe, England and Scotland offer new critical readings inspired by feminism, post-colonialism and cultural history. The volume addresses all of Lochhead's major outputs, from new appraisal of early work such as Dreaming Frankenstein and Blood and Ice to evaluations of her more recent works and collections such as The Colour of Black and White and Perfect Days.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Ian Brown
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama Book PDF

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748646340

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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama by Ian Brown Pdf

Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing

Glenda Norquay
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women s Writing Book PDF

Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748664801

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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing by Glenda Norquay Pdf

By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which Scottish women lived and wrote.

Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg

Ian Duncan
Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg Book PDF

Author : Ian Duncan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655144

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Edinburgh Companion to James Hogg by Ian Duncan Pdf

James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg's life and worlds, his publishing history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics, religion, nationality, social class, sexuality and gender, and the diverse literary forms - ballads, songs, poems, drama, short stories, novels, periodicals - in which he wrote.

Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott

Fiona Robertson
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott Book PDF

Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748670192

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Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott by Fiona Robertson Pdf

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of Waverley', he played a unique role in the dissemination of an idea of Scottish culture and history. From his early work as a collector and editor of traditional ballads to the widespread popularity and fame of his poetry and novels, and to his important writings on history, economics, folklore, and literature, Scott refashioned the literary culture of his day and continues to shape our own.The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, the first collection of its kind devoted to his work, draws on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. Chapters written by leading international scholars provide an indispensable guide to his work in different genres and reflect the topics and concerns which are most exciting in Scott scholarship today, including his place in literary and popular culture, his experimentation and originality, his relationship to Romanticism, and the revaluation of lesser-known works.

Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures

Sarah Dunnigan
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures Book PDF

Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748645411

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Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures by Sarah Dunnigan Pdf

This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present. Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland's rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.

Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Berthold Schoene
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature Book PDF

Author : Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630288

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Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by Berthold Schoene Pdf

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality,

Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry

Matt McGuire
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry Book PDF

Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636273

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Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry by Matt McGuire Pdf

The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.

The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

Edward Larrissy
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry 1945 2010 Book PDF

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107090668

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The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 by Edward Larrissy Pdf

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.

Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

Ian Brown
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Scottish Literature Book PDF

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748636952

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Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature by Ian Brown Pdf

This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018

Maria Parrino,Alessandro Scarsella,Michela Vanon Alliata
Mary Shelley s Frankenstein 1818 2018 Book PDF

Author : Maria Parrino,Alessandro Scarsella,Michela Vanon Alliata
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527554009

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018 by Maria Parrino,Alessandro Scarsella,Michela Vanon Alliata Pdf

Ever since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was first published in 1818, the story of the scientist and his Creature has been constantly told, discussed, adapted, filmed, and translated, making generations of readers approach the novel in an extraordinary variety of ways and languages. This new collection of nineteen essays brings together a range of international scholars to provide an introduction to, and a series of pathways through, this iconic novel. Chapters explore various topics, from the Bible, mythology, ruins, and human rights, to the sublime, the epistolary, and acoustics. They also place the novel in a wider cultural context, exploring its numerous afterlives, its reception, and adaptations in different media, such as drama, cinema, graphic novels, television series, and computer games. Aimed at both scholars and new readers of Frankenstein, in its different guises, this volume stimulates an informed appreciation of one of the most influential and haunting novels of all time.

Writers' Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature

Lucie Guiheneuf,Aude Haffen
Writers Biographies and Family Histories in 20th and 21st Century Literature Book PDF

Author : Lucie Guiheneuf,Aude Haffen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527512931

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Writers' Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature by Lucie Guiheneuf,Aude Haffen Pdf

New creative forms of life writing have emerged over the past four decades. Following in the footsteps of the “New Biographers,” who more than half a century earlier had trusted art and imagination to uncover some truth about a singular existence, some late-twentieth and twenty-first century novelists, playwrights and essayists staged the lives of writers they loved, wanted to vindicate, or whose influence they needed to acknowledge and ward off. In other cases, they turned to another sort of genealogy and, blurring the lines between biography and autobiography, told the story of their parents’ lives. This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging, chronologically speaking, from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Lila Azam Zanganeh’s The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness (2011). The connection between biography and fiction is explored, and analysed in the light of different veins of postmodernism—ludic, nostalgic and subversive. The contributors give pride of place to those biographical enterprises in which generic distinctions yield to transgeneric recompositions, ontological frontiers are crossed, genders are queered, women artists empowered, and the creating subject revealed to be fundamentally elusive and plural.

Nation, community, self

Gioia Angeletti
Nation community self Book PDF

Author : Gioia Angeletti
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788869772054

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Nation, community, self by Gioia Angeletti Pdf

From the late 1960s until the present day, a significant number of women playwrights have emerged in Scottish theatre who have made a pioneering contribution to dramatic innovation and experimentation. Despite the critical reassessment of some of these authors in the last twenty years, their invaluable achievement in playwriting, within and outside Scotland, still deserves more thorough investigations and fuller acknowledgement. This work explores what is still uncharted territory by examining a selection of representative texts by Ann Marie di Mambro, Marcella Evaristi, Sue Glover, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, and Joan Ure. The three macro-thematic areas of the book – the rewriting of the Shakespearean canon; the representation of female communities and minorities; and the conflicts between the self and society – find significant and paradigmatic expression in their dramas. All seven writers examined in this book have explored new theatrical methods, introduced aesthetic innovations and opened new perspectives to engage with the complexities of national, community and individual identities. This study will surely contribute to wider recognition of their achievement, so that their work can never again be described as “uncharted territory”.

Scottish Gothic

Carol Margaret Davison
Scottish Gothic Book PDF

Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474408202

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Scottish Gothic by Carol Margaret Davison Pdf

Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.

History as Theatrical Metaphor

Ian Brown
History as Theatrical Metaphor Book PDF

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137473363

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History as Theatrical Metaphor by Ian Brown Pdf

This revelatory study explores how Scottish history plays, especially since the 1930s, raise issues of ideology, national identity, historiography, mythology, gender and especially Scottish language. Covering topics up to the end of World War Two, the book addresses the work of many key figures from the last century of Scottish theatre, including Robert McLellan and his contemporaries, and also Hector MacMillan, Stewart Conn, John McGrath, Donald Campbell, Bill Bryden, Sue Glover, Liz Lochhead, Jo Clifford, Peter Arnott, David Greig, Rona Munro and others often neglected or misunderstood. Setting these writers’ achievements in the context of their Scottish and European predecessors, Ian Brown offers fresh insights into key aspects of Scottish theatre. As such, this represents the first study to offer an overarching view of historical representation on Scottish stages, exploring the nature of ‘history’ and ‘myth’ and relating these afresh to how dramatists use – and subvert – them. Engaging and accessible, this innovative book will attract scholars and students interested in history, ideology, mythology, theatre politics and explorations of national and gender identity.