Scottish Womens Fiction 1920S To 1960S
Author : Michael Anderson, Jr.
Publisher : Tuckwell Press
Page : pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781862320017
Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s
Author : Carol Anderson
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
Conveying a sense of the growth, development and variety of fiction by women in 20th-century Scotland, this volume provides historical and cultural context for the detailed discussion of 11 novels. It features works by such authors as Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir and Muriel Spark.
A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119651530
Book Description
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing
Author : Monica Germana
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748686347
Book Description
This book provides a critical survey of the gothic texts of late twentieth-century and contemporary Scottish women writers including Kate Atkinson, Ellen Galford, A.L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and Emma Tennant focusing on four themes: quests and other worlds, w
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2009-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748636951
Book Description
This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Women's Writing
Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748644458
Book Description
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.
Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950
Author : Ashlie Sponenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230379478
Book Description
This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.
Contemporary Scottish Literature
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350308773
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2006-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748630651
Book Description
In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.
Scottish Literature
Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748633103
Book Description
This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the twentieth century. Debates concerning Celticism and Gaelic take place alongside discussion of key Scottish writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh MacDiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and Liz Lochhead. The book also considers emigre writers to Scotland; Scottish literature in relation to England, the United States and Ireland; and postcolonialism and other theories that shed fresh light on the current status and future of Scottish literature.
