The modern Scottish novel : narrative and the national imagination / / Cairns Craig

• Autore: Craig Cairns
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p. )
• Disciplina: 823.9109358
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - Scottish authors - History and criticism; Scottish fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Nationalism and literature - Scotland - History - 20th century; Politics and literature - Scotland - History - 20th century; Literature and society - Scotland - History - 20th century; National characteristics, Scottish, in literature; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Scotland In literature
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-252) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The modern Scottish novel
• ISBN: 0-7486-7437-3; 0-585-12403-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813077903321
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