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Autore |
Schoene Berthold |
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The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Berthold Schoene |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-13639-9 |
9786612136399 |
0-7486-3028-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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Dialect literature, Scottish - History and criticism |
English literature - Scottish authors - 20th century - History and criticism |
English literature - Scottish authors - 21st century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-416) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COPYRIGHT; Contents; Introduction Post-devolution Scottish Writing; Part I Contexts; Chapter 1 Going Cosmopolitan: Reconstituting 'Scottishness' in Post-devolution Criticism; Chapter 2 Voyages of Intent: Literature and Cultural Politics in Post-devolution Scotland; Chapter 3 In Tom Paine's Kitchen: Days of Rage and Fire; Chapter 4 The Public Image: Scottish Literature in the Media; Chapter 5 Literature, Theory, Politics: Devolution as Iteration; Chapter 6 Is that a Scot or am Ah Wrang?; Part II Genres; Chapter 7 The 'New Weegies': The Glasgow Novel in the Twenty-first Century |
Chapter 8 Devolution and Drama: Imagining the PossibleChapter 9 Twenty-one Collections for the; Chapter 10 Shifting Boundaries: Scottish Gaelic Literature after Devolution; Chapter 11 Pedlars of their Nation's Past: Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the New Historical Novel; Chapter 12 Scottish Television Drama and Parochial Representation; Chapter 13 Scotland's New House: Domesticity and Domicile in Contemporary Scottish Women's Poetry; Chapter 14 Redevelopment Fiction: Architecture, Town-planning and |
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'Unhomeliness' |
Chapter 15 Concepts of Corruption: Crime Fiction and the Scottish 'State'Chapter 16 A Key to the Future: Hybridity in Contemporary Children's Fiction; Chapter 17 Gaelic Prose Fiction in English; Part III Authors; Chapter 18 Towards a Scottish Theatrocracy: Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead; Chapter 19 Alasdair Gray and Post-millennial Writing; Chapter 20 James Kelman and the Deterritorialisation of Power; Chapter 21 Harnessing Plurality: Andrew Greig and Modernism; Chapter 22 Radical Hospitality: Christopher Whyte and Cosmopolitanism |
Chapter 23 Iain (M.) Banks: Utopia, Nationalism and the PosthumanChapter 24 Burying the Man that was: Janice Galloway and Gender Disorientation; Chapter 25 In/outside Scotland: Race and Citizenship in the Work of Jackie Kay; Chapter 26 Irvine Welsh: Parochialism, Pornography and Globalisation; Chapter 27 Clearing Space: Kathleen Jamie and Ecology; Chapter 28 Don Paterson and Poetic Autonomy; Chapter 29 Alan Warner, Post-feminism and the Emasculated Nation; Chapter 30 A. L. Kennedy's Dysphoric Fictions; Chapter 31 Between Camps: Masculinity, Race and Nation in Post-devolution Scotland |
Chapter 32 Crossing the Borderline: Post-devolution Scottish Lesbian and Gay WritingChapter 33 Subaltern Scotland: Devolution and Postcoloniality; Chapter 34 Mark Renton's Bairns: Identity and Language in the Post-Trainspotting Novel; Chapter 35 Cultural Devolutions: Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Return of the Postmodern; Chapter 36 Alternative Sensibilities: Devolutionary Comedy and Scottish Camp; Chapter 37 Against Realism: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Supernatural; Chapter 38 A Double Realm: Scottish Literary Translation in the Twenty-first Century |
Chapter 39 Scots Abroad: The International Reception of Scottish Literature |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary crit |
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