The Gaelic Vision In Scottish Culture

Author : Malcolm Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000435238

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The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture by Malcolm Chapman Pdf

Originally published in 1978, this book explores the relationship between the Gaelic and English spheres of life, from the life of the bilingual Gael, in the confrontation of Highland and Lowland Scotland and the literary expressions of these. It is argued that the picture of Gaelic society that is popularly accepted does not owe its form to any simple observation, but to symbolic and metaphorical requirements imposed by the larger society. Beginning with the birth of the Romantic movement and moving on to modern Gaelic literature and anthropological studies, aspects of the relationship of a dominant to a ‘minority’ culture are raised. The racial stereotypes of Celt and Anglo-Saxon that were widely accepted in the 19th Century are also discussed, and the understanding of how a dominant intellectual world has used Gaelic society in the process of seeking its own definition is pursued through a study of the concepts of ‘folklore’ and the ‘folk’.

Author : Malcolm Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Civilization, Celtic, in literature
ISBN : 0783710356

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The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture by Malcolm Chapman Pdf

Author : Charles W J Withers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317332800

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Gaelic Scotland by Charles W J Withers Pdf

This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.

Author : Wilson McLeod
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781474462419

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Gaelic in Scotland by Wilson McLeod Pdf

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic.

Author : Colin Kidd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521520193

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Subverting Scotland's Past by Colin Kidd Pdf

This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.

Author : Michael Lynch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9780199234820

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The Oxford Companion to Scottish History by Michael Lynch Pdf

Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.

Author : Marshall Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315505398

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Scottish Literature Since 1707 by Marshall Walker Pdf

Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the Scots, this fresh approach to Scottish literature provides a critical interpretation of its distinctive style and presents the reader with an informative introduction to Scottish culture. Coverage includes the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Boswell and David Hulme to the 'Scottish Renaissance', associated with Hugh MacDiarmaid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's theatre Company and the fiction and poetry of Alaistar Gray and Ian Crichton Smith. Particular attention is given to the work of Scottish women writers such as Lady Grizel Baillie and Liz Lochhead, who have been much neglected in previous literature.

Author : Richard Alan Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192859181

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Modern Irish and Scottish Literature by Richard Alan Barlow Pdf

Modern Irish and Scottish Literature: Connections, Contrasts, Celticisms explores the ways Irish and Scottish literatures have influenced each other from the 1760s onwards. Although an early form of Celticism disappeared with the demise of the Celtic Revivals of Ireland and Scotland, the 'Celtic world' and the 'Celtic temperament' remained key themes in central texts of Irish and Scottish literature well into the twentieth century. Richard Barlow examines the emergence, development, and transformation of Celticism within Irish and Scottish writing and identifies key connections between modern Irish and Scottish authors and texts. By reading works from figures such as James Macpherson, Walter Scott, Sydney Owenson, Augusta Gregory, W. B. Yeats, Fiona Macleod, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, and Seamus Heaney in their political and cultural contexts, Barlow provides a new account of the characteristics and phases of literary Celticism within Romanticism, Modernism, and beyond.

Author : Konstanze Glaser
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853599323

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Minority Languages and Cultural Diversity in Europe by Konstanze Glaser Pdf

This book engages critically with debates about linguistic continuity and cultural survival in relation to Europe's authochthonous minorities. Focusing on Scotland's Gaels and Lusatia's Sorbs/Wends, it analyses and evaluates competing assumptions, rationales and ideologies which have shaped previous and present language revitalisation initiatives and that continue to pose dilemmas to language planners and politicians in the UK, Germany and beyond.

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000181401

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Reimagining Culture by Sharon Macdonald Pdf

Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book is a sophisticated analysis of responses to the 'Gaelic renaissance' in a Scottish Hebridean community. Its description of everyday conceptions of belonging and interpretations of cultural policy takes us into the world of Gaelic playgroups, crofting, local history, religion and community development. Historically and theoretically informed, this book challenges many of the ways in which we conventionally think about ethnic and national identity. This accessible and engaging account of life in this remote region of Europe provides an original and timely contribution to questions of considerable currency in a broad range of social science disciplines.

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192590220

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Stepping Westward by Nigel Leask Pdf

Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Author : Lucy Michael,Samantha Schulz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848882829

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Unsettling Whiteness by Lucy Michael,Samantha Schulz Pdf

This book examines definitions and the complex artistic, intimate and institutional means by which whiteness continues to be both resisted and reproduced.

Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781783781867

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Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting Pdf

The Hebrides hold a remarkable place in the imaginations of Scotland and England. On the outer edge of the British Isles and facing the Atlantic Ocean, these iconic islands form part of Europe's boundary. Because of their unique position, they have been at the centre of a network of ancient shipping routes which has led to a history of cultures colliding and merging. Home to a long and rich Gaelic tradition, they have attracted saints and sinners, and artists and writers, inspiring awe and dread as well as deep attachment. Over six years, Madeleine Bunting travelled to the Hebrides, exploring their landscapes, histories and magnetic pull. With great sensitivity and perceptiveness, she delves into the meanings of home and belonging, which in these islands have been fraught with tragedy as well as tenacious resistance. She finds that their history of dispossession and migration played a part in the British imperial past. And perhaps more significant still is the extent of the islands' influence on ideas of Britishness. Love of Country shows how the islands' history is a backdrop for contemporary debates about the relationship between our nations, how Britain was created, and what Britain has meant - for good and for ill.

Author : David McCrone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473987814

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The New Sociology of Scotland by David McCrone Pdf

Written by a leading sociologist of Scotland, this ground-breaking new introduction is a comprehensive account of the social, political, economic and cultural processes at work in contemporary Scottish society. At a time of major uncertainty and transformation The New Sociology of Scotland explores every aspect of Scottish life. Placed firmly in the context of globalisation, the text: examines a broad range of topics including race and ethnicity, social inequality, national identity, health, class, education, sport, media and culture, among many others. looks at the ramifications of recent political events such as British General Election of 2015, the Scottish parliament election of May 2016, and the Brexit referendum of June 2016. uses learning features such as further reading and discussion questions to stimulate students to engage critically with issues raised. Written in a lucid and accessible style, The New Sociology of Scotland is an indispensable guide for students of sociology and politics.

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857908346

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On the Other Side of Sorrow by James Hunter Pdf

“An extraordinary intellectual voyage” through Gaelic environmental awareness, centuries ahead of its time, and its value today (The Herald). Caring for the environment, developing rural communities, and ensuring the survival of minority cultures are all laudable objectives, but they can conflict, and nowhere more so than the Scottish Highlands. As environmentalists strive to preserve the scenery and wildlife of the Highlands, the people who belong there, and who have their own claims on the landscape, question this new threat to their culture, which dates back thousands of years. In this sensitive, thought-provoking book, James Hunter probes deep into this culture to examine the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness a thousand years before other Europeans, and conservationists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the nineteenth century. More than that, he also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens—an approach that has worldwide implications. “A very thoughtful piece of advocacy.” —The Scotsman