The Individual and the Twentieth-century Scottish Literary Tradition
Author : Duncan Glen
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,6 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.
The Individual and the Twentieth-century Scottish Literary Tradition
Author : Duncan Glen
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Beyond Scotland
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,16 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900448387X
Book Description
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.
Thistle and Rose
Author : Annie Boutelle
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838750230
Book Description
By examining the poems chronologically and sympathetically and by exploring the relationship of language, formal dynamics, image, and theme, this study attempts to discover the essence of MacDiarmid's highly individual contribution to the poetry of this century.
Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry
Author : Riach Alan Riach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1474471994
Book Description
A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry
Hugh MacDiarmid, the Poetry of Self
Author : John Baglow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773505711
Book Description
Christopher Grieve, writing under the name of Hugh MacDiarmid, was a major modern poet and founder of the Scottish literary Renaissance. In this study of his poetry, John Baglow eliminates what has been a stumbling block for most MacDiarmid scholars by showing the very real thematic and psycological consistency which underlines MacDiarmid's work. He demonstrates the extent to which the work was dominated by a desire to find a faith that could justify his desire to write poetry, a desire continually thwarted by a critical intellect which destroyed whatever faith he was able to construct. This constant search without a successful conclusion is at the heart of the work of many major modernist writers; MacDiarmid's poetry can be seen as embracing this tradition and making it explicit.
A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119651441
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.
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures
Author : Sarah Dunnigan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 074868459X
Book Description
Introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression - folk narrative, ballad, legend, song, broadsides and chapbooks.
A Twentieth-century Literature Reader
Author : Suman Gupta
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0415351707
Book Description
This critical Reader is the essential companion to any course in twentieth-century literature. Drawing upon the work of a wide range of key writers and critics, the selected extracts provide: a literary-historical overview of the twentieth century insight into theoretical discussions around the purpose, value and form of literature which dominated the century closer examination of representative texts from the period, around which key critical issues might be debated. Clearly conveying the excitement generated by twentieth-century literary texts and by the provocative critical ideas and arguments that surrounded them, this reader can be used alongside the two volumes of Debating Twentieth-Century Literature or as a core text for any module on the literature of the last century. Texts examined in detail include: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Mansfield's Short Stories, poetry of the 1930s, Gibbon's Sunset Song, Eliot's Prufrock, Brecht's Galileo, Woolf's Orlando, Okigbo's Selected Poems, du Maurier's Rebecca, poetry by Ginsburg and O'Hara, Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Puig's Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, Gurnah's Paradise and Barker's The Ghost Road.
