Kailyard And Scottish Literature
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Author | : Andrew Nash |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9042022035 |
For more than a century, the word 'Kailyard' has been a focal point of Scottish literary and cultural debate. Originally a term of literary criticism, it has come to be used, often pejoratively, across a whole range of academic and popular discourse. Historians, politicians and critics of Scottish film and media have joined literary scholars in using the term to set out a diagnosis of Scottish culture. This is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Andrew Nash traces the origins of the Kailyard diagnosis in the nineteenth century and considers the critical concerns that gave rise to it. He then provides a full reassessment of the literature most commonly associated with the term - the fiction of J.M. Barrie, S.R. Crockett and Ian Maclaren. Placing this work in more appropriate contexts, he considers the literary, social and religious imperatives that underpinned it and discusses the impact of these writers in the publishing world. These chapters are succeeded by detailed analysis of the various ways in which the term has been used in wider discussions of Scottish literature and culture. Discussing literary criticism, film studies, and political and sociological analyses of Scotland, Nash shows how Kailyard, as a critical term, helps expose some of the key issues in Scottish cultural debate in the twentieth century, including discussions over national representation, popular culture and the parochialism of Scottish culture.
Author | : Ian Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : George Douglas Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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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.
Author | : Andrew Nash |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : Cairns Craig |
Publisher | : Elsevier Science & Technology |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Publisher | : Brill |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9401208379 |
The nineteenth century is often read as a time of retreat and diffusion in Scottish literature under the overwhelming influence of British identity. Scotland and the 19th-Century World presents Scottish literature as altogether more dynamic, with narratives of Scottish identity working beyond the merely imperial. This collection of essays by leading international scholars highlights Scottish literary intersections with North America, Asia, Africa and Europe. James Macpherson, Francis Jeffrey, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and John Davidson feature alongside other major literary and cultural figures in this groundbreaking volume.
Author | : James Matthew Barrie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1805 |
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Author | : Carla Sassi |
Publisher | : The Saltire Society |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780854110827 |
This is the fourth book in a Saltire series examining the significance of Scottish history, philosophy and the Scots language. Here, the Distinguished Italian academic Carla Sassi examines Scotland's literature from the earliest times to the late 20th century and offers new and fascinating insights into the nature of nationhood and identity, and the way in which these are reflected in, and the inspiration for, literary output at various periods. The major historical influences are covered including relations with England, religious division, enlightenment philosophy and the Union of 1707, but Professor Sassi also examines Scotland's role in the British imperial adventure and the impact on literature of the coloniser / colonised experience. She makes a special study of the contribution of women writers and the writers of the 20th century 'Renaissance' and concludes with speculation on the future of 'Scottish' literature in a post-modern Scotland exposed to global cultural influences and living in the new political world heralded by the restoration of the Holyrood Parliament. Carla Sassi is Associate Professor of English literature at the University of Verona. She specialises in Sc
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.