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Book Synopsis Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature by : Louisa Gairn
Download or read book Ecology and Modern Scottish Literature written by Louisa Gairn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Community in Modern Scottish Literature by :
Download or read book Community in Modern Scottish Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Gendering the Nation by : Christopher Whyte
Download or read book Gendering the Nation written by Christopher Whyte and published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five women and four men examine the relationship between gender and nationality in modern fiction and theatre, poetry, film and television, 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.
Book Synopsis Scotland's Books by : Robert Crawford
Download or read book Scotland's Books written by Robert Crawford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Modern Scottish Literature by : Alan Norman Bold
Download or read book Modern Scottish Literature written by Alan Norman Bold and published by London ; New York : Longman. This book was released on 1983 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modern Scottish Culture by : Michael Gardiner
Download or read book Modern Scottish Culture written by Michael Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Scottish Literature by : Matt McGuire
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.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) by : Ian Brown
Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707) written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis How the Scots Invented the Modern World by : Arthur Herman
Download or read book How the Scots Invented the Modern World written by Arthur Herman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by : Berthold Schoene-Harwood
Download or read book The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature written by Berthold Schoene-Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing by : Ian Johnson
Download or read book The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing written by Ian Johnson and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary vernacular and on themes of national identity. This volume shows how, when viewed through the prism of latinity, Scottish textuality was distinctive and fecund. The flowering of Scottish writing owed itself to a subtle combination of literary praxis, the ideal of eloquentia, and ideological deftness, which enabled writers to service a burgeoning national literary tradition.
Book Synopsis The Modern Scottish Novel by : Cairns Craig
Download or read book The Modern Scottish Novel written by Cairns Craig and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature by : Gerard Carruthers
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature written by Gerard Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Book Synopsis Gendering the Nation by : Whyte Christopher Whyte
Download or read book Gendering the Nation written by Whyte Christopher Whyte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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'.
Book Synopsis Modern Scottish Women Poets by : Dorothy McMillan
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.
Book Synopsis The Finishing School by : Muriel Spark
Download or read book The Finishing School written by Muriel Spark and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Muriel Spark, the grande dame of literary satire, comes this swift, deliciously witty tale of writerly ambition that recalls her beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.College Sunrise is a somewhat louche and vaguely disreputable finishing school located, for now, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he works, somewhat falteringly, on his novel. Into Rowland’s creative writing class comes seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a red-haired literary prodigy whose historical novel-in-progress, on Mary Queen of Scots, has already excited the interest of publishers. The inevitable result: keen envy, and a game of cat and mouse fraught with jealousy and attraction, both literary and sexual.
Book Synopsis The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature by : Monika Szuba
Download or read book The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature written by Monika Szuba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
