Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748630651

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)

Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2006-11-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748628622

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 Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern transformations: new identities (from 1918)

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern transformations: new identities (from 1918)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Scottish Literature

Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-04-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748633103

This guide combines detailed literary history with discussion of contemporary debates about Scottishness.The book considers the rise of Scottish Studies, the development of a national literature, and issues of cultural nationalism. Beginning in the medieval period during a time of nation building, the book goes on to focus on the 'Scots revival' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before moving on to discuss the literary renaissance of the twentieth century. Debates concerning Celticism and Gaelic take place alongside discussion of key Scottish writers such as William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh MacDiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway and Liz Lochhead. The book also considers emigre writers to Scotland; Scottish literature in relation to England, the United States and Ireland; and postcolonialism and other theories that shed fresh light on the current status and future of Scottish literature.

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern transformations: new identities (from 1918)

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern transformations: new identities (from 1918)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.

Is this a Culture of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Is this a Culture of Trauma? An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Author: Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1848881622

This collection brings together case studies from the social sciences, such as clinical psychology and psychotherapy, as well as articles from the humanities that examine the aesthetics of trauma as represented in film, fiction, poetry, and the graphic novel.

Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language

Edinburgh Companion to the Gaelic Language
Author: Moray Watson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748637109

Bringing together a range of perspectives on the Gaelic language, this book covers the history of the language, its development in Scotland and Canada, its spelling, syntax and morphology, its modern vocabulary, and the study of its dialects. It also addresses sociolinguistic issues such as identity, perception, language planning and the appearance of the language in literature. Each chapter is written by an expert on their topic.The book has been written accessibly with a non-specialist audience in mind. It will have a particular value for those requiring introductions to aspects of the Gaelic language. It will also be of great interest to those who are embarking on research on Gaelic for the first time. Authors include Colm O Baoill, David Adger, Rob Dunbar, Seosamh Watson, Ken Nilsen, Ken MacKinnon and Ronald Black.

Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark
Author: David Herman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801895537

"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years."--Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh --Book Jacket

Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century

Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century
Author: Bryan Glass
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784992259

This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century. As the century dawned, the Scottish economy was still strongly connected with imperial infrastructures (like railways, engineering, construction and shipping), and colonial trade and investment. By the end of the century, however, the Scottish economy, its politics, and its society had been through major upheavals which many connected with decolonisation. The end of empire played a defining role in shaping modern-day Scotland and the identity of its people. Written by scholars of distinction, these chapters represent ground-breaking research in the field of Scotland’s complex and often-changing relationship with the British empire in the period. The introduction that opens the collection will be viewed for years to come as the single most important historiographical statement on Scotland and empire during the tumultuous years of the twentieth century. A final chapter from Stuart Ward and Jimmi Østergaard Nielsen covers the 2014 referendum.

Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One

Minority Language Writers in the Wake of World War One
Author: Jelle Krol
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2020-08-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030520404

This book presents a comparative literary study of the works of four writers working in European minority languages - Frisian, Welsh, Scots and Breton. The author examines the different strategies employed by the four writers to create distinctive literary fields for their languages in the interwar era when self-determination had been promised to national minorities, finding that each had to make some degree of a step backwards into the past to enable them to make a leap forward. The book also discusses the problems resulting from this oscillation between traditionalism and modernism, drawing on concepts such as Pascale Casanova's 'littératures combatives' to make sense of these minority languages and communities within the wider European context. This study will be of interest to students and scholars of minority languages - particularly the four explored here - as well as twentieth-century and comparative literature, multilingualism, and language policy.