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Author Craig, Cairns

Title The modern Scottish novel : narrative and the national imagination / Cairns Craig
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents Introduction: novel, nation, tradition -- Fearful selves: character, community, and the Scottish imagination -- Dialect and dialectics -- Enduring histories: mythic regions -- The typographic muse -- Doubtful imaginings -- Conclusion: narrative and the space of the nation
Summary This book argues that the writing of a few of the Scottish novelists, has been formed by a powerful national tradition, whose distinctive thematic concerns have changed the shape of the novel in English
Analysis English fiction History, 1945-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-252) and index
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Subject Nationalism and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
Politics and literature -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
Literature and society -- Scotland -- History -- 20th century
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Authors, Scottish.
Scottish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Scots in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Scottish fiction
Scots in literature
Authors, Scottish
Literature
Literature and society
Narration (Rhetoric)
National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
Nationalism and literature
Politics and literature
Romans.
Engels.
SUBJECT Scotland -- In literature
Subject Scotland
Schotland.
Genre/Form English prose
Scottish authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98183386
ISBN 0585124035
9780585124032
9780748674374
0748674373