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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2016-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004317451 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004317457 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community in Modern Scottish Literature by :
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. The leading scholars in the field examine work in the novel, poetry, and drama, by key Scottish authors such as MacDiarmid, Kelman, and Galloway, as well as less well known writers. This includes postmodern and postcolonial readings, analysis of writing by gay and Gaelic authors, alongside theorists of community such as Nancy, Bauman, Delanty, Cohen, Blanchot, and Anderson. This book will unsettle and yet broaden traditional conceptions of community in Scotland and Scottish literature, suggesting a more plural idea of what community might be.
Author |
: Ian Brown |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1908980079 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781908980076 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roots and Fruits of Scottish Culture by : Ian Brown
Scotland's culture is vigorous and vibrant, energised by questions of history and identity, by interpretations of the past and by the possibilities for the future. At this key moment, earlier identities are being re-examined and re-presented, and personal and cultural histories are being redefined and reconsidered in contemporary life and literature. It is these themes of re-examination, re-presentation, redefinition and reconsideration that the eleven essays in this volume explore. Together, they show how the multifarious roots embedded in contemporary Scottish life and letters bear fruit - often in surprising ways - and how the re-creation and reimagination of Scottish culture, its identities and its tropes, are being developed by a range of leading Scottish writers.
Author |
: Ian Brown |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2006-11-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748628629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748628622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by : Ian Brown
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 |
: Louisa Gairn |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2008-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748631988 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748631984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by : Louisa Gairn
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 |
: Gerard Carruthers |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 692 |
Release |
: 2023-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119651536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119651530 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Scottish Literature by : Gerard Carruthers
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Author |
: Matt McGuire |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2008-11-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137070081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137070080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Scottish Literature by : Matt McGuire
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 |
: Gioia Angeletti |
Publisher |
: Mimesis |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2019-01-18T00:00:00+01:00 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788869772054 |
ISBN-13 |
: 8869772055 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nation, community, self by : Gioia Angeletti
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”.
Author |
: T. M. Devine |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 720 |
Release |
: 2012-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199563692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199563691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History by : T. M. Devine
A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.
Author |
: George Douglas Brown |
Publisher |
: e-artnow |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2020-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: EAN:4064066395063 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The House with the Green Shutters by : George Douglas Brown
Set in mid-19th century Ayrshire, in the fictitious town of Barbie the novel The House with the Green Shutters (1901) describes the struggles of a proud and taciturn carrier, John Gourlay, against the spiteful comments and petty machinations of the envious and idle villagers of Barbie (the "bodies"). The sudden return after fifteen years' absence of the ambitious merchant, James Wilson, son of a mole-catcher, leads to commercial competition against which Gourlay has trouble responding.
Author |
: Berthold Schoene |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2007-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748630288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748630287 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by : Berthold Schoene
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,