The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature

Herausgeber: Brown, Ian; Riach, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature Series Editors: Ian Brown & Thomas Owen Clancy This series offers new insights into Scottish authors, periods and topics drawing on contemporary critical approaches. Each volume: * provides a critical evaluation and comprehensive overview of its subject * offers thought-provoking original critical assessments by expert contributors * includes a general introduction by the volume editor(s) and a selected guide to further reading. The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature Edited by Ian Brown & Alan Riach This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to adopt their creative literary strategies. The volume's innovative thematic structure ensures that the most important texts or authors are seen from different perspectives whether in the context of empire, renaissance, war and post-war, literary genre and language. These thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature. Key Features * The first volume of its kind to offer accessible and authoritative insights into Scottish literature since 1900 * Innovative structure allows for new ways of approaching Scottish writers and literary texts * Draws on the most recent scholarship in the field from leading literary critics * Includes a guide to further reading Ian Brown is a freelance scholar and arts and education consultant. Alan Riach holds the Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780748636938
• ISBN-10: 0748636935
• Artikelnr.: 26815783

Autorenporträt

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and widely published on aspects of theatre and literature. He is also a playwright and poet. Alan Riach holds the Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid and the author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 1991). His fifth book of poems, Homecoming (Luath Press) will be published in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface
1 Introduction, Ian Brown and Alan Riach
2 Arcades - The Turning of the Nineteenth Century, Cairns Craig
3 Scotland, Empire and Apocalypse from Stevenson to Buchan, Murray Pittock
4 Literature and World War One, Trevor Royle
5 Arcades - The 1920s and 1930s, Alan Riach
6 Twentieth-century Scottish Drama, Donald Smith and Ksenija Horvat
7 The Modern Scottish Literary Renaissance, Roderick Watson
8 Scottish Literature and World War Two, Douglas Gifford
9 Arcades - The 1940s and 1950s, Moira Burgess
10 The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid and W. S. Graham, John Corbett
11 Post-war Scottish Fiction - Mac Colla, Linklater, Jenkins, Spark and Kennaway, Bernard Sellin
12 Arcades - The 1960s and 1970s, Ian Brown and Colin Nicholson
13 The (B)order in Modern Scottish Literature, Carla Sassi
14 The Seven Poets Generation, Robyn Marsack
15 Language and Identity in Modern Gaelic Verse, Michelle Macleod
16 Arcades - The 1980s and 1990s, Michael Gardiner
17 Scottish Contemporary Popular and Genre Fiction, Marie Odile Pittin-Hédon
18 Poetry in the age of Morgan, Alan Riach
19 Entering the Twenty-first Century, Ian Brown
Endnotes
Synoptic Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index.