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Author : Alan Norman Bold
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCAL:B3475755
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350308770
This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama. The Guide is structured thematically with each chapter addressing a specific area of debate within the field of contemporary Scottish Studies.
Author : Berthold Schoene-Harwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015070742351
This title 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.
Author : Whyte Christopher Whyte
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474473583
Too often seen as a ghost from the past, nationalism has resurfaced as a major factor in European politics and culture. A powerful commitment to national autonomy has marked Scottish writing throughout the twentieth century. How has the emergence of new voices from feminist, gay and lesbian critics transformed that commitment? How critical and pluralistic can the new nationalisms be? This collection serves notice that the tradition is being read in new and disruptive ways. Five women and four men examine the relationship between gender and nationality, how male and female authors portray women, the treatment of sexuality in Scottish writing, the construction of Scottish masculinity and its relation to class and homophobia. Covering modern fiction and theatre, poetry, film and television, it is a provocative reassessment of the gender and culture of a 'stateless nation'.
Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199888979
From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004317451
Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives.
Author : Cairns Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048858545
Craig shows how writers -- Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, Iain Banks, A. L. Kennedy, and Irvine Welsh -- have adopted a specific set of formal techniques to deal both with the dominance of the English language in the media and the Calvinist legacy, and relates the Scottish novel to contemporary postcolonial and postmodern theory.
Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061183748
This book provides an overview of Scottish culture from the time of union with England and Wales up to and through the moment of devolution to the present.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748628629
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
Author : Carla Sassi
Publisher : The Saltire Society
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0854110828
This is the fourth book in a Saltire series examining the significance of Scottish history, philosophy and the Scots language. Here, the Distinguished Italian academic Carla Sassi examines Scotland's literature from the earliest times to the late 20th century and offers new and fascinating insights into the nature of nationhood and identity, and the way in which these are reflected in, and the inspiration for, literary output at various periods. The major historical influences are covered including relations with England, religious division, enlightenment philosophy and the Union of 1707, but Professor Sassi also examines Scotland's role in the British imperial adventure and the impact on literature of the coloniser / colonised experience. She makes a special study of the contribution of women writers and the writers of the 20th century 'Renaissance' and concludes with speculation on the future of 'Scottish' literature in a post-modern Scotland exposed to global cultural influences and living in the new political world heralded by the restoration of the Holyrood Parliament. Carla Sassi is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Verona. She specialises in Sc
Author : Louisa Gairn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748631988
This book presents a provocative and timely reconsideration of modern Scottish literature in the light of ecological thought. Louisa Gairn demonstrates how successive generations of Scottish writers have both reflected on and contributed to the development of international ecological theory and philosophy. Provocative re-readings of works by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, John Muir, Nan Shepherd, John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie and George Mackay Brown demonstrate the significance of ecological thought across the spectrum of Scottish literary culture. This book traces the influence of ecology as a scientific, philosophical and political concept in the work of these and other writers and in doing so presents an original outlook on Scottish literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Monika Szuba,Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030126452
This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience. Major genres and forms are discussed, and authors as diverse as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Jamie, Ken McLeod and Kei Miller are presented through theoretically informed, historically contextualized close readings. Additionally considering the role of dialect and region in the poetry and fiction of modern Scotland, the volume argues for an appreciation of the cultural diversity of Scottish writers while highlighting the overarching presence of a connection between self and world, subject and place within Scottish literature.
Author : Gerard Carruthers,Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521189361
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Crown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307420954
An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Author : Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:230200560
