Autore	McCracken-Flesher Caroline
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina	820.9/3556
Soggetto topico	Literature and history - Scotland Crime in popular culture - Scotland English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism Murder in mass media - Scotland National characteristics, Scottish, in literature
ISBN	0-19-020859-7 0-19-025285-5 1-283-42797-4 9786613427977 0-19-991031-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Medicine, Murder, and Scottish Story: Doctor Knox and Burke and Hare; 2. The Story Begins: The Law versus the Press, and the Doctor versus Walter Scott; 3. Enlightened System versus Religious Sympathy: The Sensational Tales of Alexander Leighton and David Pae; 4. Dissecting the Doctor: Mr. Jekyll, Dr. Hyde, and Robert Knox; 5. Anatomizing the Audience: James Bridie , Melodrama, and the Movies; 6. Bringing Out the Dead: Silent Victims Speak in Alasdair Gray 's Poor Things 7. Resting in Pieces? Present Comforts or Restless Futures in Ian Rankin 's ScotlandNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910820169203321

Autore	Gairn Louisa
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina	820.9941109034
Soggetto topico	Ecology in literature English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism Scottish literature - 19th century - History and criticism Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-7486-5344-9 1-281-78581-4 9786611785819 0-7486-3198-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Re-Mapping Modern Scottish Literature; 1. Feelings for Nature in Victorian Scotland; 2. Strange Lands; 3. Local and Global Outlooks; 4. Dear Green Places; 5. Lines of Defence; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454398703321

Autore	Brown Ian
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (349 p.)
Disciplina	820.99411
Altri autori (Persone)	BrownIan <1951-> ClancyThomas Owen PittockMurray
Collana	Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature EUP
Soggetto topico	English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism Scottish literature - History and criticism
ISBN	1-282-13633-X 9786612136337 0-7486-2862-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Scottish Literature: Criticism and the Canon; 2 The Study of Scottish Literature; Until 1314; 3 One Kingdom from many Peoples: History until 1314; 4 The Topography of People's Lives: Geography until 1314; 5 The Lion's Tongues: Languages in Scotland to 1314; 6 The Poetry of the Court: Praise; 7 Aneirin, the Gododdin; 8 Norse Literature in the Orkney Earldom; 9 Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh and the Classical Revolution; 10 Saving Verse: Early Medieval Religious Poetry; 11 Hagiography; 12 Adomnán of Iona and his Prose Writings 13 Theology, Philosophy and Cosmography14 A Fragmentary Literature: Narrative and Lyric from the Early Middle Ages; 1314-1707; 15 Land and Freedom: Scotland, 1314-1707; 16 Emergent Nation: Scotland's Geography, 1314-1707; 17 The Several Tongues of a Single Kingdom: The Languages of Scotland, 1314-1707; 18 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period 1314 until 1707; 19 Versions of Scottish Nationhood, c. 850-1707; 20 From Rome to Ruddiman: The Scoto-Latin Tradition 21 Creation and Compilation: The Book of the Dean of Lismore and Literary Culture in Late Medieval Gaelic Scotland22 Gaelic Literature in the Later Middle Ages: The Book of the Dean and beyond; 23 Philosophy and Theology in Scotland before the Reformation; 24 Scottish Theological Literature, 1560-1707; 25 Legal Writing, 1314-1707; 26 Literature, Art and Architecture; 27 Performances and Plays; 28 Balladry: A Vernacular Poetic Resource; 29 Older Scots Literature and the Court; 30 Robert Henryson; 31 William Dunbar; 32 Sìleas na Ceapaich; Notes on Contributors - Volume One; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910777954803321

Autore	Brown Ian
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina	820.90009411
Altri autori (Persone)	BrownIan <1951->
Collana	Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature EUP
Soggetto topico	English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism
ISBN	1-282-13641-0 9786612136412 0-7486-3065-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; 1 Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland since 1918; 2 Notes on a Small Country: Scotland's Geography since 1918; 3 Resistance to Monolinguality: The Languages of Scotland since 1918; 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period since 1918; 5 The Criticism of Scottish Literature: Tradition, Decline and Renovation; 6 Literature and the Screen Media since 1908; 7 Material Culture in Modern Scotland; 8 Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill; 9 Hugh MacDiarmid 10 Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys, 1918-6911 'To Get Leave to Live': Negotiating Regional Identity in the Literature of North-East Scotland; 12 Disorientation of Place, Time and 'Scottishness': Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone; 13 Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction; 14 Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century; 15 Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and Infrastructures of Theatre Provision in Twentieth- Century Scotland; 16 Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay 17 Living with the Double Tongue: Modern Poetry in Scots18 Monsters and Goddesses: Culture Re-energised in the Poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail; 19 Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s; 20 The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children's Fiction; 21 The Human and Textual Condition: Muriel Spark's Narratives; 22 From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama; 23 The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic; 24 Varieties of Voice and Changing Contexts: Robin Jenkins and Janice Galloway 25 Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction26 Re-imagining the City: End of the Century Cultural Signs in the Novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens and Rankin; 27 The Border Crossers and Reconfiguration of the Possible: Poet-Playwright-Novelists from the Mid-Twentieth Century on; 28 In the Shadow of the Bard: The Gaelic Short Story, Novel and Drama since the early Twentieth Century; 29 Staging the Nation: Multiplicity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Scottish Theatre 30 Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Drama31 The Diaspora and its Writers; 32 New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness; Notes on Contributors - Volume Three; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910777941703321

Autore	Brown Ian
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina	820.90009411
Altri autori (Persone)	BrownIan <1951->
Collana	Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature EUP
Soggetto topico	English literature - Scottish authors - History and criticism Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism
ISBN	1-282-13641-0 9786612136412 0-7486-3065-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Preface; 1 Changing Cultures: The History of Scotland since 1918; 2 Notes on a Small Country: Scotland's Geography since 1918; 3 Resistance to Monolinguality: The Languages of Scotland since 1918; 4 The International Reception and Literary Impact of Scottish Literature of the Period since 1918; 5 The Criticism of Scottish Literature: Tradition, Decline and Renovation; 6 Literature and the Screen Media since 1908; 7 Material Culture in Modern Scotland; 8 Sir James Frazer and Marian McNeill; 9 Hugh MacDiarmid 10 Edwin and Willa Muir: Scottish, European and Gender Journeys, 1918-6911 'To Get Leave to Live': Negotiating Regional Identity in the Literature of North-East Scotland; 12 Disorientation of Place, Time and 'Scottishness': Conan Doyle, Linklater, Gunn, Mackay Brown and Elphinstone; 13 Past and Present: Modern Scottish Historical Fiction; 14 Tradition and Modernity: Gaelic Bards in the Twentieth Century; 15 Theatres, Writers and Society: Structures and Infrastructures of Theatre Provision in Twentieth- Century Scotland; 16 Cultural Catalysts: Sorley MacLean and George Campbell Hay 17 Living with the Double Tongue: Modern Poetry in Scots18 Monsters and Goddesses: Culture Re-energised in the Poetry of Ruaraidh MacThòmais and Aonghas MacNeacail; 19 Old Country, New Dreams: Scottish Poetry since the 1970s; 20 The Lost Boys and Girls of Scottish Children's Fiction; 21 The Human and Textual Condition: Muriel Spark's Narratives; 22 From Carswell to Kay: Aspects of Gender, the Novel and the Drama; 23 The Autobiography in Scottish Gaelic; 24 Varieties of Voice and Changing Contexts: Robin Jenkins and Janice Galloway 25 Breaking Boundaries: From Modern to Contemporary in Scottish Fiction26 Re-imagining the City: End of the Century Cultural Signs in the Novels of McIlvanney, Banks, Gray, Welsh, Kelman, Owens and Rankin; 27 The Border Crossers and Reconfiguration of the Possible: Poet-Playwright-Novelists from the Mid-Twentieth Century on; 28 In the Shadow of the Bard: The Gaelic Short Story, Novel and Drama since the early Twentieth Century; 29 Staging the Nation: Multiplicity and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Scottish Theatre 30 Varieties of Gender Politics, Sexuality and Thematic Innovation in Late Twentieth-Century Drama31 The Diaspora and its Writers; 32 New Diversity, Hybridity and Scottishness; Notes on Contributors - Volume Three; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910808716903321