The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies: New Visions, Old Dreams - Couverture souple

Wallace, Stuart; Stevenson, Randall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748604154 ISBN 13 : 9780748604159

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 1993

Synopsis

The last two decades have seen a new renaissance in Scottish literary culture in which the Scottish novel has attained new heights of maturity, confidence and challenge. The Scottish Novel since the Seventies is the first major critical reassessment of the developments in this period. Ranging from the work of longer-established authors such as Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark and William McIlvanney to the more recent experiments of Alasdair Gray James Kelman and Janice Galloway, it provides a new critical focus on the intriguing relationship between continuity and innovation which characterises the novel's response to the complex changes in Scottish culture and society during the past twenty years. The contributors assess the work of an extensive number of writers in thecontext of a correspondingly wide range of issues: gender, postmodernism, political identity, archaism and myth, and the theme of disintegration.There are also chapters on the continuing growth of the 'Glasgow novel' and film adaptations of Scottish fiction. A bibliography of Scottish fiction since 1970 completes this critical account.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Born in the north of Scotland, grew up in Glasgow and studied in the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Lectured on modern literature in 15 countries in Europe and in Nigeria, South Korea and Egypt. General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748604154
• ISBN 13: 9780748604159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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