TY - BOOK AU - Wallace,Stuart AU - Anderson,Carol AU - Burns,John AU - Craig,Cairns AU - Dickson,Beth AU - Dunn,Douglas AU - Gifford,Douglas AU - Harvie,Christopher AU - Lumsden,Alison AU - Metzstein,Margery AU - Morgan,Edwin AU - Nairn,Thom AU - Norquay,Glenda AU - Rankin,Ian AU - Spring,Ian AU - Stevenson,Randall AU - Wallace,Gavin TI - The Scottish Novel since the Seventies SN - 9780748604159 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; PART I CONTINUITIES --; One Disruptions: The Later Fiction of Robin Jenkins --; Two Bleeding from All that's Best: The Fiction of Iain Crichton Smith --; Three The Deliberate Cunning of Muriel Spark --; Four Class and Being in the Novels of William McIlvanney --; Five Myths and Marvels --; Part II INNOVATIONS --; Six Tradition and Experiment in the Glasgow Novel --; Seven Resisting Arrest: James Kelman --; Eight Innovation and Reaction in the Fiction of Alasdair Gray --; Nine Iain Banks and the Fiction Factory --; Ten Of Myths and Men: Aspects of Gender in the Fiction of Janice Galloway --; Part III NEW READINGS --; Eleven Divergent Scottishness: William Boyd, Allan Massie, Ronald Frame --; Twelve Listening to the Women Talk --; Thirteen Gnawing the Mammoth: History, Class and Politics in the Modern Scottish and Welsh Novel --; Fourteen Image and Text: Fiction on Film --; Fifteen Voices in Empty Houses: The Novel of Damaged Identity --; Sixteen The Scottish Novel since 1970: A Bibliography --; About the Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The last two decades have seen a new renaissance in Scottish literary culture in which the Scottish novel has attained new heights of maturity, confidence and challenge. The Scottish Novel since the Seventies is the first major critical reassessment of the developments in this period. Ranging from the work of longer-established authors such as Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark and William McIlvanney to the more recent experiments of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Janice Galloway, it provides a new critical focus on the intriguing relationship between continuity and innovation which characterises the novel's response to the complex changes in Scottish culture and society during the past twenty years. The contributors assess the work of an extensive number of writers in the context of a correspondingly wide range of issues: gender, postmodernism, political identity, archaism and myth, and the theme of disintegration. There are also chapters on the continuing growth of the 'Glasgow novel' and film adaptations of Scottish fiction. A bibliography of Scottish fiction since 1970 completes this critical account UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474473392 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474473392 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474473392/original ER -