The Edinburgh history of Scottish literature [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 3 Modern transformations : new identities (from 1918) / / general and period editor, Ian Brown ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777941703321
• Autore: Brown Ian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-13641-0; 9786612136412; 0-7486-3065-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Collana: Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature EUP
• Altri autori (Persone): BrownIan <1951->
• Disciplina: 820.90009411
• Soggetti: English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; 1 Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland since 1918; 2 Notes on a Small Country: Scotland's Geography since 1918; 3 Resistance to Monolinguality: The Languages of Scotland since 1918; 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period since 1918; 5 The Criticism of Scottish Literature: Tradition, Decline and Renovation; 6 Literature and the Screen Media since 1908; 7 Material Culture in Modern Scotland; 8 Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill; 9 Hugh MacDiarmid; 10 Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys, 1918-6911 'To Get Leave to Live': Negotiating Regional Identity in the Literature of North-East Scotland; 12 Disorientation of Place, Time and 'Scottishness': Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone; 13 Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction; 14 Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century; 15 Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and Infrastructures of Theatre Provision in Twentieth- Century Scotland; 16 Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay; 17 Living with the Double Tongue: Modern Poetry in Scots18 Monsters and Goddesses: Culture Re-energised in the Poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail; 19 Old Country, New Dreams: ; Scottish Poetry since the 1970s; 20 The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children's Fiction; 21 The Human and Textual Condition: Muriel Spark's Narratives; 22 From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama; 23 The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic; 24 Varieties of Voice and Changing Contexts: Robin Jenkins and Janice Galloway; 25 Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction26 Re-imagining the City: End of the Century Cultural Signs in the Novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens and Rankin; 27 The Border Crossers and Reconfiguration of the Possible: Poet-Playwright-Novelists from the Mid-Twentieth Century on; 28 In the Shadow of the Bard: The Gaelic Short Story, Novel and Drama since the early Twentieth Century; 29 Staging the Nation: Multiplicity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Scottish Theatre; 30 Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Drama31 The Diaspora and its Writers; 32 New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness; Notes on Contributors - Volume Three; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature offers a major reinterpretation, re-evaluation and repositioning of the scope, nature and importance of Scottish Literature, arguably Scotland's most important and influential contribution to world culture. Drawing on the very best of recent scholarship, the History contributes a wide range of new and exciting insights. It takes full account of modern theory, but refuses to be in thrall to critical fashion. It is important not only for literary scholars, but because it changes the very way we think about what Scottishness is. In almost a century sin