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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953686403321

Autore

Gardiner Michael <1970->

Titolo

From Trocchi to Trainspotting : Scottish critical theory since 1960 / / Michael Gardiner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786610538409

9780748653393

0748653392

9781322981222

1322981221

9781280538407

1280538406

9780748627110

0748627111

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

820.9941109045

Soggetti

Criticism - Scotland

Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Idea of Resistance; Chapter 2 The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Twentieth-Century Experience; Chapter 3 Spark contra Spark; Chapter 4 Les Évènements Écossais; Chapter 5 The Author as DJ; Chapter 6 Life During Wartime; Chapter 7 Kelman's Interventions; Chapter 8 After Genre; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Offering a discussion of Scottish Literature and the accompanying critical theory, this book argues that critical-theoretical ideas came first from a Scottish context of writing from the 1960's onwards. Its themes can be read as a breakdown in Scottish Enlightenment thinking after empire - precisely the process which permitted the rise of 'theory'.