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Author : Aileen Christianson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Women Writers written by Aileen Christianson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays fill a gap in critical response to contemporary Scottish women writers.
Author : Juliet Shields
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009003054
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Juliet Shields and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748664807
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing written by Glenda Norquay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Scottish Women's Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Author : Dorothy McMillan
Publisher : Birlinn Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781841955261
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Modern Scottish Women Poets written by Dorothy McMillan and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable collection traces the work of nearly a hundred writers over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history. An extensive introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland throughout the whole of the twentieth century. With over 200 poems—from Naomi Jackson, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead and many others—this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets.
Author : Emma Parker
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840114
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Contemporary British Women Writers written by Emma Parker and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers. Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within the academy almost exclusively by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson. This collection celebrates the range and diversity of contemporary (post-1970) British women writers. It challenges misconceptions about the natureand scope of fiction by women writers working in Britain - commonly dismissed as parochial, insular, dreary and domestic - and seeks to expand conventional definitions of "British" by exploring how issues of nationality intersectwith gender, class, race and sexuality. Writers covered include Pat Barker, A.L. Kennedy, Maggie Gee, Rukhsana Ahmad, Joan Riley, Jennifer Johnston, Ellen Galford, Susan Hill, Fay Weldon, Emma Tennant, and Helen Fielding. Contributors: DAVID ELLIS, CLARE HANSON, MAROULA JOANNOU, PAULINA PALMER, EMMA PARKER, FELICITY ROSSLYN, CHRISTIANE SCHLOTE, JOHN SEARS, ELUNED SUMMERS-BREMNER, IMELDA WHELEHAN, GINA WISKER.
Author : Evelyn S. Newlyn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502202
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing written by Evelyn S. Newlyn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first critical and theoretical study of women as the subjects of writing and as writers in Medieval and Early-Modern Scottish literature. The essays draw on a diverse range of literary, historical, cultural and religious sources in Scots, Gaelic and English to discover the complex ways in which 'Woman' was represented and by which women represented themselves as creative subjects. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing brings to light previously unknown writing by women in the early modern period and offers as well new interpretations of early Scottish texts from feminist and theoretical perspectives.
Author : Kirsten Stirling
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025107
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Bella Caledonia written by Kirsten Stirling and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional icon like Britannia or France's Marianne. Scottish writers make use of familiar aspects of the trope such as the protective mother nation and the woman as fertile land, which are obviously problematic from a feminist perspective. But darker implications, buried in the long history of the figure, rise to the surface in Scotland, such as woman/nation as victim, and woman/nation as deformed or monstrous. As a result of Scotland's unusual status as a nation within the larger entity of Great Britain, the literary figures under consideration here are never simply incarnations of a confident and complete nation nurturing her warrior sons. Rather, they reflect a more modern anxiety about the concept of the nation, and embody a troubled and divided national identity. Kirsten Stirling traces the development of the twentieth-century Scotland-as-woman figure through readings of poetry and fiction by male and female writers including Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison, Neil Gunn, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Willa Muir, Alasdair Gray, A.L. Kennedy, Ellen Galford and Janice Galloway.
Author : Michel Byrne
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Modern Scottish Women Poets written by Michel Byrne and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of pioneers such as Rachel Ann Taylor, Marion Angus, Violet Jacob and Helen Cruickshank, the best known Scottish poets of the early 20th-century were men. However, by the second half of the century it was an entirely different story, as this anthology shows. An introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland including Gaelic poets selected and discussed by Michel Byrne. The collection traces the work of more than 100 writers, some of whom have been forgotten, over the most eventful period in Scottish literary history. The volume goes from Mary Symon, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Naomi Mitchinson to Sheena Blackhall, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Catriona MinGumaraid, Meg Bateman, Anne Frater, Angela McSeveney and more.
Author : Elizabeth Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Cottagers of Glenburnie written by Elizabeth Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tudor Balinisteanu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443816205
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing written by Tudor Balinisteanu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.
Author : Catherine Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Modern Society, Or, The March of Intellect written by Catherine Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liz Lochhead
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off written by Liz Lochhead and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic about the bitter rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots, and her cousin and fellow ruler, Elizabeth I of England - retold by Scotland's most popular playwright. 'Once upon a time, there were twa queens on the wan green island, and the wan green island was split inty twa kingdoms. But no equal kingdoms...' Mary and Elizabeth are two women with much in common, but more that sets them apart. Following the death of her husband, the Dauphin of France, the beautiful, and staunchly Catholic Mary Stuart has returned from France to rule Scotland, a country she neither knows nor understands. Ill-prepared to rule in her own right, Mary has failed to learn what her protestant cousin, Elizabeth Tudor, knows only too well - that a queen must rule with her head, not her heart. All too soon the stage is set for a deadly endgame in which there can only be one winner and one queen on the one green island. Liz Lochhead's play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is presented in a distinctive cabaret style, with much of the dialogue in the 'Braid Scots' vernacular. It was first performed by the Communicado Theatre Company at the Lyceum Studio Theatre, Edinburgh, in August 1987. This revised version was published alongside the revival by the National Theatre of Scotland, which toured in 2009. Also included is a new introduction by the author.
Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748672664
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book History of Scottish Women's Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308773
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Literature written by Matt McGuire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women Writers of the 1930s written by Maroula Joannou and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of new writings has a double purpose: to question Auden's description of the 1930s as a 'low dishonest decade' and to draw attention to the richness, complexity and diversity of women's writing of the period and how this deals with issues of politics, gender and history. The writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf.Key Features* A clear and informative introduction by Maroula Joannou sets the writers in historical and literary context* The essays deal with Modernist texts as well as traditional modes of writing, and with neglected and well-known writers* An important challenge to the ways in which the literature of the 1930s has been traditionally understood which questions the myth of the Auden generation* Brings together a range of distinguished contributors all of whom are experienced university teachers who all contribute new research
Author : Maggie Humm
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719027048
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Border Traffic written by Maggie Humm and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work on the ways in which women writers from different races and cultures often choose similar, alternative routes across the "borders" of their literary place. For example, Buchi Emecheta's and Bessie Head's exile in Britain and Botswana dictate the form and content of their writing.
