The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Trevor Royle
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780333378717
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Legacies of Ewan MacColl
Author: Professor Allan F Moore
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-11-28
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1409424308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the importance of Ewan MacColl to the English folk revival. MacColl gave two extended interviews with co-editor Giovanni Vacca in 1987 and 1988 and these provide the impetus for a re-examination of his methods, his politics and his aesthetic aims. Great emphasis is placed on the importance of seeing MacColl as not only a British, but a European folk activist, through discussion of his hitherto barely known work in Italy, enabling a re-contextualization of his work within a broader European context. Peggy Seeger contributes a Foreword to the collection.
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 2816
ISBN-13: 0520321871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2023-12-26
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1119651441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-12-24
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0521189365
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The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400-1650
Author: Nicola Royan
Publisher: International Companions to Scottish Literature
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908980236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1400 and 1650 Scotland underwent a series of drastic changes, in court, culture, and religion. This International Companion traces the impact of these historical transformations on Scotland's literatures, in English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots, and provides a comprehensive overview to the major cultural developments of this turbulent age.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009-07-03
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748636951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Scottish Literature Since 1707
Author: Marshall Walker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1315505398
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marshall Walker's lively and readable account of the highs and lows of Scottish literature from this important date to the present addresses the important themes of democracy, power and nationhood. Disposing of stereotypical ideas about Scotland and the Scots, this fresh approach to Scottish literature provides a critical interpretation of its distinctive style and presents the reader with an informative introduction to Scottish culture. Coverage includes the Scottish enlightenment and the world of Boswell and David Hulme to the 'Scottish Renaissance', associated with Hugh MacDiarmaid. Developments in the contemporary literary scene include John McGrath's theatre Company and the fiction and poetry of Alaistar Gray and Ian Crichton Smith. Particular attention is given to the work of Scottish women writers such as Lady Grizel Baillie and Liz Lochhead, who have been much neglected in previous literature.
The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature
Author: Kenneth McNeil
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908980366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nineteenth century has been regarded as an era of decline for Scottish literature. This INTERNATIONAL COMPANION shows that it was instead a transformational period. Through a lively and extensive publishing community, widely varied Scottish writers found expression. New voices and genres flourished. Alongside cultural giants such as Scott and Stevenson, women, working-class, immigrant, and emigrant authors - writing in English, Gaelic, and Scots - propelled Scotland onto the international literary stage. From Shetland to Tasmania, from Celtic Twilight to science fiction, this volume explores the many modes of Scottish expression that emerged from this complex and fertile age.
Contemporary Scottish Literature
Author: Matt McGuire
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 2009-02
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an assessment of the critical responses to a range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama and also explores issues such as nationalism, language, post-colonialism and gender. This guide covers various key contemporary Scottish authors, including Welsh, Kennedy, Spark, Gray and Kelman.
