LEADER 04041nam 2200697 450 001 9910778872903321 005 20230721025455.0 010 $a0-7486-7437-3 010 $a0-585-12403-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748674374 035 $a(CKB)111004366757188 035 $a(MH)007876439-4 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12027763 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188829 035 $a(PQKB)10484680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6141691 035 $a(DE-B1597)615296 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748674374 035 $a(OCoLC)1322124991 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366757188 100 $a20200624d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe modern Scottish novel $enarrative and the national imagination /$fCairns Craig 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (256 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7486-0893-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 242-252) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 1 $a"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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aScottish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNationalism and literature$zScotland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zScotland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zScotland$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNational characteristics, Scottish, in literature 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aScotland$xIn literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xScottish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aScottish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aNational characteristics, Scottish, in literature. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 676 $a823.9109358 700 $aCraig$b Cairns$0201219 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778872903321 996 $aThe modern Scottish novel$93854590 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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