Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748688307
This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic
Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748670203
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Author : John Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
This is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author : Ian Duncan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748655166
A guide devoted to its subject, the book draws on recent breakthroughs in research on Hogg to illuminate the urgent debates and fruitful contexts that helped to shape his writings. Essays written by an international team of scholars provide an indispensab
Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0748627103
An imaginatively constructed new literary history of the twentieth century.This companion with a difference sets a controversial new agenda for literary -historical analysis. Far from the usual forced march through the decades, genres and national literatures, this reference work for the new century cuts across familiar categories, focusing instead on literary 'hot spots': Freud's Vienna and Conrad's Congo in 1899, Chicago and London in 1912, the Somme in July 1916, Dublin, London and Harlem in 1922, and so on, down to Bradford and Berlin in 1989 (the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, the new digital media), Stockholm in 1993 (Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize) and September 11, 2001.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748664807
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 : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521189365
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748644458
Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. 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 women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sileas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748646345
Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.
Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748645411
This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present. Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the historical analysis of Scotland's rich store of ballad, song, and folk narrative are discussed in separate chapters. The volume also explores why and how Scottish literary writers have been inspired by traditional genres, modes, and motifs, and the intermingling of folk and literary traditions in writers such as Burns, Scott, and Hogg. It also uncovers the folkloric and mythopoetic materials of early Scottish literature, and the vitality of neglected aspects of Scottish popular culture.
