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Bannockburns : Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014 / Robert Crawford.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748685837
  • 9780748685851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.99411 23
LOC classification:
  • DA783.41 .C73 2014eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Writing Bannockburn -- Chapter 2 Burns and Bannockburns -- Chapter 3 Beyond Scotland -- Chapter 4 Difficult Modern Scots -- Chapter 5 Voting for a Scottish Democracy -- Notes -- Index
Summary: How writers imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 yearsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685844','ISBN:9780748685837','ISBN:9780748685851','ISBN:9780748685868']);Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations peacefully united in 1707. Continuing up to the present day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314-2014.This engagingly written volume begins with an English poet-in-residence at the 1314 battle. The book then traces how that famous victory has been interpreted and reinterpreted imaginatively. It moves from vivid medieval epics in several languages through the Romantic political imagination of Robert Burns to the striking part played by twenty-first-century poets, novelists, and dramatists in creative attempts to answer the 2014 question: 'Should Scotland be an independent country?'Here are the nationalist poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and the gore of Braveheart and Black Watch; the Surrey novelist who celebrates Scotland's political freedom in her international best-seller, and the bisexual Jewish American who develops a nuanced theory of Scottish nationalism in opposition to the oppressive rhetoric of fascism. Bannockburns concludes with a spirited discussion of literature and Scotland's 2014 referendum. From The Bruce to contemporary literature and modern-day campaigning, Bannockburns is revelatory."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Writing Bannockburn -- Chapter 2 Burns and Bannockburns -- Chapter 3 Beyond Scotland -- Chapter 4 Difficult Modern Scots -- Chapter 5 Voting for a Scottish Democracy -- Notes -- Index

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How writers imagined the idea of Scottish independence over 700 yearsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748685844','ISBN:9780748685837','ISBN:9780748685851','ISBN:9780748685868']);Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations peacefully united in 1707. Continuing up to the present day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314-2014.This engagingly written volume begins with an English poet-in-residence at the 1314 battle. The book then traces how that famous victory has been interpreted and reinterpreted imaginatively. It moves from vivid medieval epics in several languages through the Romantic political imagination of Robert Burns to the striking part played by twenty-first-century poets, novelists, and dramatists in creative attempts to answer the 2014 question: 'Should Scotland be an independent country?'Here are the nationalist poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and the gore of Braveheart and Black Watch; the Surrey novelist who celebrates Scotland's political freedom in her international best-seller, and the bisexual Jewish American who develops a nuanced theory of Scottish nationalism in opposition to the oppressive rhetoric of fascism. Bannockburns concludes with a spirited discussion of literature and Scotland's 2014 referendum. From The Bruce to contemporary literature and modern-day campaigning, Bannockburns is revelatory."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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