[PDF] A Companion To Scottish Literature eBook

Author : Gerard Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521189365

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A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.

Author : Leith Davis
Publisher : Scottish Literature International
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 2021-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781908980311

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This International Companion shows how Scotland's literary cultures, in English, Gaelic, Latin, and Scots, were transformed in the turbulent age between between 1650 to 1800.

Author : Nicola Royan
Publisher : International Companions to Scottish Literature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781908980236

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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.

Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748637702

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This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies.

Author : Glenda Norquay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748664807

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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 : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1119651530

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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.

Author : Carla Sassi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2015
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9781908980151

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A range of leading international scholars provide the reader with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the extraordinary richness and diversity of Scotland's poetry. Addressing Languages and Chronologies, Poetic Forms, and Topics and Themes, this International Companion covers the entire subject from early medieval texts to contemporary writers, and examines English, Gaelic, Latin and Scots verse.

Author : Fiona Robertson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748670203

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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 : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2009-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199888973

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From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.