Author : Riach Alan Riach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1474471994
A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857431780
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474403743
Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.
Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107090660
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636277
The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.
Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 19,21 MB
Release : 2011-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611483751
Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can seem a futuristic fiction itself. This book explores the tensions between science and a particular society that produce an innovative science fiction. Essays consider Scottish thermodynamics, Celtic myth, the rigors of religious “conversion,” Scotland’s fractured politics yet civil society, its languages of alterity (Scots, Gaelic, allegory, poetry), and the lure of the future. From Peter Pan and Dr. Jekyll to the poetry of Edwin Morgan and the worlds of Muriel Spark, Ken Macleod, or Iain M. Banks, Scotland’s creative complex yields a literature that models the future for Science Fiction.
Author : Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474408206
Written from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Author : Maurice Lindsay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1474470270
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Author : Margery Palmer McCulloch
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748634754
This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context. Topics range from the revitalisation of the Scots vernacular as an avant-garde literary language in the 1920s and the interaction of literature and politics in the 1930s to the fictional re-imagining of the Highlands, the response of women writers to a changing modern world and the manifestations of a late modernism in the 1940s and 1950s. Writers featured include Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Neil M. Gunn, Edwin and Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell, Sydney Goodsir Smith and Sorley MacLean.
Author : David Hutchison
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527557464
This collection introduces the reader to the life and times of Stuart Hood (1915-2011). Highlighting Hood’s year spent fighting with the Italian Resistance during the Second World War, the essays consider how his experiences as a partisan influenced his peacetime trajectory. Written by distinguished scholars from several disciplines, each chapter examines different aspects of Hood’s life and work, including his Scottish boyhood and university education in Edinburgh; his distinguished career as a broadcaster presiding over an era of unprecedented creativity at BBC television; his role in the establishment of the discipline of media studies; and his contribution to radical European culture as the translator of 40 literary works from Italian, German, French and Russian, and as the author of eight acclaimed novels. Stuart Hood’s reticence made him an enigma to many who knew him. This collection assesses his many-faceted achievements, demonstrating how his life provides fresh insights into twentieth-century European history. This book will appeal to readers interested in the history of British and European socialism, media studies and literature.
