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Alienation and Resistance

Author : Laura Findlay
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553256
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Alienation and Resistance written by Laura Findlay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection draws together recent work by new and emerging scholars which examines the representation of alienation and resistance in texts and images, both modern and traditional. The essays collected here incorporate both “high” and “low” culture, covering a wide range of disciplines from traditional literary sources to the more modern mediums of film and comic. Informing each of the contributions is one overriding question: what are the roles, forms, and conditions of alienation and resistance in our culture and its diverse media? The contributors to this collection find examples of both alienation and resistance everywhere, from sixteenth century drama to contemporary fiction, from American comics to Eastern European cinema, from representations of the body to the site of the body itself. In seeking out these representations of alienation and resistance, the essays begin also to probe the limits and limitations of such terms. As such, the collection as a whole offers both a broad overview of the field of play as it stands today and makes tentative suggestions as to potential paths of future inquiry.

Am I Missing Something...

Author : Iain Hollingshead
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312087
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Am I Missing Something... written by Iain Hollingshead and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, the collection of the best letters that didn’t quite make it into the Telegraph – because just too left-field, outrageous or hilarious for an august Letters page – offers an alternative review of the year. For this fifth volume the potential agenda is just as enticing as ever, with Telegraph readers variously waggish, whimsical or just plain steamed-up about Chris Huhne’s speeding points, a new Pope, the Royal baby and mansion taxes. Once again, it will be one of the humour bestsellers of the year.

Magnus Merriman

Author : Eric Linklater
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675417
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Magnus Merriman written by Eric Linklater and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Douglas Gifford. This hilarious novel charts the rise and fall (and perhaps the rise again) of Magnus Merriman—would-be lover, writer, politician, idealist and crofter—moved by dreams of greatness and a talent for farcical defeat. Convinced that ‘small nations are safer to live in than big ones’, Magnus becomes a Nationalist candidate for the parliamentary seat of ‘Kinluce’. With details based on Linklater’s own experiences in an East Fife by-election in 1933, the way is set for a satirical and irreverent portrait of Scottish life, literature and politics in the 1930s. Nothing is sacred and no-one is spared. ‘A book full of remarkable passages . . . [with a] breathless tempo . . . it is wonderful writing.’ Herald

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Scottish Painting

Author : J D Fergusson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913025810
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Modern Scottish Painting written by J D Fergusson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was published in 1943 without illustrations. This new edition – edited, introduced and annotated by Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach – finally brings Fergusson's project to fruition, illustrating the argument with colour reproductions of Fergusson's own work. Moffat and Riach frame Fergusson's important art manifesto for the 21st-century reader, illuminating his views on modern art as he explores questions of technique, education, form and what it means for a painting to be truly modern. Fergusson relates these aspects of modern painting to Scottishness, showing what they mean for Scottish identity, nationalism, independence and the legacy that puritanical Calvinism has left on Scottish art – a particular concern for Fergusson given his recurring subject matter of the female nude.

The Battle for Scotland

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241968011
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Battle for Scotland written by Andrew Marr and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We may be about to see a new country - indeed, two new countries, - emerging on these islands. Half a lifetime ago, I sat down to write this book as a work of history. As it's aged, it's become current affairs.' Just twenty years ago it seemed impossible that Scotland would ever get home rule, let alone full independence. And even following a vote that did not result in Scottish independence, there are still talks of a second referendum. In The Battle for Scotland, first published in 1992, Andrew Marr provides the historical backdrop to these extraordinary events. He attempts to explain the deep sources of Scottish national feeling and the political will which brought us to this deeply uncertain time. In a substantial introduction written before 2014's referendum, Marr considers the questions every voting Scot (and every non-voting UK citizen) were asking themselves at the time.

Beyond Scotland

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448387X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Scotland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish creative writing in the twentieth century was notable for its willingness to explore and absorb the literatures of other times and other nations. From the engagement with Russian literature of Hugh MacDiarmid and Edwin Morgan, through to the interplay with continental literary theory, Scottish writers have proved active participants in a diverse international literary practice. Scottish criticism has, arguably, often been slow in appreciating the full extent of this exchange. Preoccupied with marking out its territory, with identifying an independent and distinctive tradition, Scottish criticism has occasionally blinded itself to the diversity and range of its writers. In stressing the importance of cultural independence, it has tended to overlook the many virtues of interdependence. The essays in this book aim to offer a corrective view. They celebrate the achievement of Scottish writing in the twentieth century by offering a wider basis for appreciation than a narrow idea of 'Scottishness'. Each essay explores an aspect of Scottish writing in an individual foreign perspective; together they provide an enriching account of a national literary practice that has deep, and often surprisingly complex, roots in international culture.

The Scottish Question

Author : James Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199688656
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Question written by James Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets the Scottish independence referendum in context, exploring the questions of national identity, everyday public policy, structures of government and constitutional politics, drawing on a range of sources to illustrate why the Scottish Question can never be answered definitively.

Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Author : John W. Cousin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of English Literature written by John W. Cousin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parachute to Berlin

Author : Lowell Bennett
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636243177
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Parachute to Berlin written by Lowell Bennett and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner. Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address

Author : Leslie Dunkling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985703
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address written by Leslie Dunkling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-20 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will give learners of English the confidence to address people appropriately in a wide variety of situations. It will also help them to understand what is implied when an English speaker uses a particular way of addressing someone. These topics are entirely neglected in most courses and textbooks, and there is no other reference work on the subject. Anyone who is fascinated by words will also find much here of interest. A wealth of historical, sociological and etymological information is set out in a highly readable style. Some 2,000 entries arranged in alphabetical order shed new light on familiar terms of address and present many curiosities. The author gives examples from a wide range of literature, particularly twentieth century novels, and provides an illuminating commentary on them.

Auld Reekie

Author : Ralph Lownie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845969723
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Auld Reekie written by Ralph Lownie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Edinburgh has inspired affection, admiration and awe amongst visitors and residents alike, and in this widely praised anthology Ralph Lownie draws on an expansive range of sources, including speeches, memoirs, letters, poems, novels and journals, to capture the unique spirit of Scotland's capital. Alongside the set-pieces, familiar names and city landmarks - the Porteous Riots, Burke and Hare, Deacon Brodie, the Castle and Arthur's Seat - are numerous less well-known accounts of the city, which cast fresh light on both the writer and topic: Chesterton, Betjeman, J.B. Priestley, Brontë and Wordsworth, for example, are names not generally associated with the city but are featured here. Auld Reekie showcases Edinburgh in all its beauty and historic worth but doesn't flinch from the less savoury side of its character, including sections on the city in adversity and on its crime record. This varied and absorbing collection will be treasured by all those who love Edinburgh.

In Flanders Fields

Author : Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780574320
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book In Flanders Fields written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is the first ever acknowledgement of Scotland's unique contribution to the literature of the First World War. Here are gathered together well-known writers like John Buchan, Eric Linklater, Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie, as well as poets like Joseph Lee and Roderick Watson Kerr, who found their true voices fighting in a war to end wars. There is also a substantial contribution from women writers in the work of Violet Jacob, Naomi Mitchison and Mary Symon.

Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950

Author : Dean Baldwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321936
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880–1950 written by Dean Baldwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short story was a commercial phenomenon which took off in the late nineteenth century and lasted through to the rise of television and film. Baldwin uses a wide variety of sources to show how economic factors helped to dictate how and what a wide variety of authors wrote.

Literature of Scotland

Author : Roderick Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137067438
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Literature of Scotland written by Roderick Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.

Essence of Edinburgh

Author : Jenni Calder
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387492
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Essence of Edinburgh written by Jenni Calder and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book is a personal journey – an eccentric odyssey – exploring aspects of past and present, people and places. It is an evocation rather than a history.' A city of fascinating unpredictability is how Jenni Calder describes Edinburgh. In an eccentric odyssey that is equally fascinating and unpredictable, she discovers the essence of the city beyond the iconic centre. With a passionate sense of place, she evokes personal experience alongside vivid accounts of Edinburgh given by others. In the Grassmarket, she recalls Sir Walter Scott's dramatisations of riot and public execution. On Blackford Hill, she takes pleasure in the account given by the 'Silent Traveller' Chiang Yee of walking backwards to the summit. Crossing the Dean Bridge brings to mind Naomi Mitchison's imagined descent into the vertiginous Dean Gorge. Jenni Calder's journeys through this most 'walkable' of cities brings a new appreciation of Edinburgh into being.

A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135665192
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles written by Otto Jespersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the seventh and last volume of that great work by Otto Jespersen the first volume of which was published in 1909. This volume looks at English Syntax including subjects such as sentence structure, word classes, word order, cases, comparison and determination.