04041nam 2200697 450 991081307790332120230721025455.00-7486-7437-30-585-12403-510.1515/9780748674374(CKB)111004366757188(MH)007876439-4(SSID)ssj0000204514(PQKBManifestationID)12027763(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204514(PQKBWorkID)10188829(PQKB)10484680(MiAaPQ)EBC6141691(DE-B1597)615296(DE-B1597)9780748674374(OCoLC)1322124991(EXLCZ)9911100436675718820200624d2009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe modern Scottish novel narrative and the national imagination /Cairns CraigEdinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2009.1 online resource (256 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7486-0893-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-252) and index.Introduction: novel, nation, tradition -- Fearful selves: character, community, and the Scottish imagination -- Dialect and dialectics -- Enduring histories: mythic regions -- The typographic muse -- Doubtful imaginings -- Conclusion: narrative and the space of the nation."In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A. L. Kennedy and Irvine Welsh have achieved significant international success. In The Modern Scottish Novel Cairns Craig shows how the work of such writers is constructed by a powerful national tradition in the novel, formed in the first decades of the century by writers such as John Buchan, Nan Shepherd, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Neil Gunn, a tradition whose distinctive thematic and formal concerns have shaped a unique contribution to the novel in English." "Craig argues that the Scottish novel has had to develop a highly specific set of formal techniques to cope with a situation in which the dominance of the English language is challenged by the survival of the rich inheritance of Scots speech, and in which the continuing effects of Calvinism imply that all fiction is necessarily deceitful, when not actually diabolic. Craig also sets the Scottish novel in the specific traditions of Scottish intellectual life - from J. G. Frazer to John Macmurray and R. D. Laing."--BOOK JACKET.English fictionScottish authorsHistory and criticismScottish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismNationalism and literatureScotlandHistory20th centuryPolitics and literatureScotlandHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyScotlandHistory20th centuryNational characteristics, Scottish, in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)History20th centuryScotlandIn literatureEnglish fictionScottish authorsHistory and criticism.Scottish fictionHistory and criticism.Nationalism and literatureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryNational characteristics, Scottish, in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)History823.9109358Craig Cairns201219MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813077903321The modern Scottish novel4070598UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress