Author: George Ross RoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Studies in Scottish Literature
Author: George Ross RoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
STUDIES IN SCOTTISH LITERATURE;.
Author: The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture
Author: Ronnie YoungPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 161148801X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
This volume takes a fresh look at the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the wider impact of imaginative literature on Enlightenment culture in general. Covering key authors and work in areas as varied as philosophy, medicine, travel writing, religion, drama, history, publishing, and the periodical press, it provides scholars and students with a timely re-evaluation of the links between imaginative literature and the larger project of Enlightenment in Scotland and beyond.
Gendering the Nation
Author: Christopher WhytePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Five women and four men examine the relationship between gender and nationality in modern fiction and theatre, poetry, film and television, how male and female authors portray women, the treatment of sexuality in Scottish writing, the construction of Scottish masculinity and its relation to class and homophobia.
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard CarruthersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521189365
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Prizing Scottish Literature
Author: Stevie MarsdenPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1785274821
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.
Community in Modern Scottish Literature
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004317457
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Community in Modern Scottish Literature is the first book to examine representations and theories of community in Scottish writing of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries across a broad range of authors and from various conceptual perspectives.
Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature
Author: Michael GardinerPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748637753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The first full-length study of Scottish literature using a post-devolutionary understanding of postcolonial studies. Using a comparative model and spanning over two hundred years of literary history from the 18th Century to the contemporary, this collection of 19 new essays by some of the leading figures in the field presents a range of perspectives on Scottish and postcolonial writing. The essays explore Scotland's position on both sides of the colonial divide and also its role as instigator of a devolutionary process with potential consequences for British Imperialism.
American and British Poetry
Author: Harriet Semmes AlexanderPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description