| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
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Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 6 |
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Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
Contributors; Introduction; "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland; "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy; The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln; Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry; Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins; Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity |
| Summary |
As politics and cultures interact within an increasingly diverse Scotland, and differences in values become more evident across generations, the need for clear understanding and cooperation within and between communities becomes a pressing issue. This relates both to local and larger concerns: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Sp |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
English literature -- Scottish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Scottish authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGonigal, James
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Stirling, Kirsten
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| ISBN |
9781429456456 |
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1429456450 |
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9789401203470 |
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9401203474 |
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