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Scottish Literature / Gerard Carruthers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748633081
  • 9780748633104
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.99411
LOC classification:
  • PR8511 .C37 2009
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Rise of Scottish Literature -- Chapter 2 Scottish Literature in Scots -- Chapter 3 Scottish Writing in English -- Chapter 4 Intimate Critical Spaces in Scottish Texts -- Chapter 5 Literary Relations: Scotland and Other Places -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index
Summary: This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the twentieth century. Debates concerning Celticism and Gaelic take place alongside discussion of key Scottish writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh MacDiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and Liz Lochhead. The book also considers émigré writers to Scotland; Scottish literature in relation to England, the United States and Ireland; and postcolonialism and other theories that shed fresh light on the current status and future of Scottish literature.Key FeaturesIdentifies the main trends in the emergence and development of Scottish literature, situating them in historical and cultural contextDiscusses long-running debates about Scottish language and national identity through detailed readings of authors and textsIntroduces students to a variety of comparative and theoretical approaches which further develop an understanding of Scottish literatureEncourages reflection on questions of Scottish nationalism, cultural politics, canonicity and the rise of Scottish Studies
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Rise of Scottish Literature -- Chapter 2 Scottish Literature in Scots -- Chapter 3 Scottish Writing in English -- Chapter 4 Intimate Critical Spaces in Scottish Texts -- Chapter 5 Literary Relations: Scotland and Other Places -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index

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This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the twentieth century. Debates concerning Celticism and Gaelic take place alongside discussion of key Scottish writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh MacDiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and Liz Lochhead. The book also considers émigré writers to Scotland; Scottish literature in relation to England, the United States and Ireland; and postcolonialism and other theories that shed fresh light on the current status and future of Scottish literature.Key FeaturesIdentifies the main trends in the emergence and development of Scottish literature, situating them in historical and cultural contextDiscusses long-running debates about Scottish language and national identity through detailed readings of authors and textsIntroduces students to a variety of comparative and theoretical approaches which further develop an understanding of Scottish literatureEncourages reflection on questions of Scottish nationalism, cultural politics, canonicity and the rise of Scottish Studies

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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