Twentieth Century Scottish Classics
Author | : Edwin Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Authors, Scottish |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edwin Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Authors, Scottish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maurice Lindsay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Author | : Cairns Craig |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 819 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1847674747 |
Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at every turn for the vigour of its language and its direct confrontation with telling issues. The plays in this anthology offer a unique chance to grasp the different topics and also the recurrent themes of Scottish drama in the twentieth century. Gathered together in a single omnibus volume, there is the poetic eeriness of Barrie and the political commitment of Joe Corrie and Sue Glover; there is the Brechtian debate of Bridie and the verbal brilliance of John Byrne and Liz Lochhead; there is working-class experience and feminist insight; broad Scots and existential anxiety; street realism and a meeting with the devil; social injustice and raucous humour; historical comedy and tragic loss. Here is both the breadth and the continuity of the modern Scottish tradition in a single volume.
Author | : Ian Brown |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-07-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748636951 |
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. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900. 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, generation, and resistance. In order to provide thorough coverage, these thematic chapters are complemented by chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which outline the contexts of the literature of the period by decades, and by 'Overview' chapters which trace developments across the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken together, the chapters provide a thorough and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.
Author | : Dorothy McMillan |
Publisher | : Birlinn Limited |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781841955261 |
This invaluable collection traces the work of nearly a hundred writers over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history. An extensive introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland throughout the whole of the twentieth century. With over 200 poems—from Naomi Jackson, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead and many others—this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Dialect drama, Scottish |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Phillips Jim Phillips |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1474452345 |
Examining working class welfare in the age of deindustrialisation through the experiences of the Scottish coal minerThroughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. This book argues that coal miners occupy a central position in Scotland's economic, social and political history, and highlights the role of miners in formulating labour movement demands for political-constitutional reforms that eventually resulted in the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999. The book also uses the struggle of the mineworkers to explore working class wellbeing more broadly during the prolonged and politicised period of deindustrialisation that saw jobs, workplaces and communities devastated. Key featuresExamines deindustrialisation as long-running, phased and politicised processUses generational analysis to explain economic and political changeRelates Scottish Home Rule to long-running debates about economic security and working class welfareAnalyses the longer history of Scottish coal miners in terms of changing industrial ownership, production techniques and workplace safetyRelates this economic and industrial history to changes in mining communities and gender relations
Author | : Douglas Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9780571228386 |
During the 1920s, Scottish poetry, personified by Hugh MacDiarmid, asserted its independence, denying the claim made by T. S. Eliot that all significant differences between Scottish and English literature had ceased to exist. It was an energetic 'No' to provincialism, and a vigorous 'Yes' to nationalism as an enabler of poetry. On its first appearance in 1992, the retrospective and organising vision of Douglas Dunn's now-classic anthology revealed a profounder level of achievement in modern Scottish poetry - whether in Scots, Gaelic or English - than had been formerly acknowledged, and introduced an entire canon of writing to a wider readership, edited with discrimination and exemplary lucidity.
Author | : Maurice Lindsay |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-08-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1474470270 |
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Author | : |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780811206310 |
Although the number of Gaelic speakers has declined during the twentieth century, the last forty years have seen an astonishing flowering of Scottish Gaelic poetry, much of it in the modern idiom. This bilingual anthology provides a selection of the best work of poets who have contributed most to that revival--Sorely Maclean, George Campbell Hay, Derick Thomson, Iain Crichton Smith, and Donald MacAulay.