LEADER 04626nam 22006012 450 001 9910777867503321 005 20230828235058.0 010 $a94-012-0347-4 010 $a1-4294-5645-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401203470 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471120 035 $a(EBL)556547 035 $a(OCoLC)85846715 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149853 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12053835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149853 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10239640 035 $a(PQKB)10030254 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556547 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380149 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401203470 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471120 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEthically Speaking $eVoice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing /$fedited by James McGonigal, Kirsten Stirling 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 225 1 $aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ;$v6 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2084-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContributors -- James MCGONIGAL and Kirsten STIRLING: Introduction -- John CORBETT: "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland -- Kirsten STIRLING: "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy -- Gerard CARRUTHERS: The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln -- Anne-Kathrin BRAUN-HANSEN: Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry -- Ingibjörg ÁGÚSTSDÓTTIR: Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins -- Jordana BROWN: Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar -- Suhayl SAADI: Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity -- Edwin MORGAN in Conversation with James MCGONIGAL: Gay Writing in Scotland: An Interview with Edwin Morgan -- Kirsty WILLIAMS: "A Different Kind of Natural": The Fiction of Jackie Kay and Ali Smith -- Scott BREWSTER: Beating, Retreating: Violence and Withdrawal in Iain Banks and John Burnside -- Beth DICKSON: "Pathetic Reminders"? The Idea of Education in Modern Scottish Fiction -- James MCGONIGAL: Translating God: Negative Theology and Two Scottish Poets -- Index. 330 $aAs politics and cultures interact within an increasingly diverse Scotland, and differences in values become more evident across generations, the need for clear understanding and cooperation within and between communities becomes a pressing issue. This relates both to local and larger concerns: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark, William McIlvanney, Ali Smith, James Kelman and others) and the communities described are certainly Scottish, but the issues raised are universal. Questions are asked about the relationship of the individual to others, and therefore, on a larger scale, about the means through which any community is both constructed and sustained: linguistically, spiritually, ethically. If their multiple voices evoke a "zigzag of contradictions", it is at any rate a creative zigzag which discovers, or uncovers, many contradictory aspects of life in modern Scotland that should particularly be brought to light in a re-emergent nation. Ethically speaking, Scottish writers point out the need to attend to many different narratives and retellings, in order that Scots might live more honestly and clear-sightedly with themselves and with the wider world. 410 0$aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ;$v6. 517 3 $aVoice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing 606 $aEnglish literature$zScottish authors$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$zScottish authors 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature 676 $a824.8 702 $aMcGonigal$b James 702 $aStirling$b Kirsten 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777867503321 996 $aEthically speaking$92136627 997 $aUNINA