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Author: Alan MacGillivray Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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Alan MacGillivray's SCOTNOTE study guide carefully traces Greenvoe's narrative threads and is an excellent resource for senior school pupils and students.
Author: Alan MacGillivray Publisher: Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
Alan MacGillivray's SCOTNOTE study guide carefully traces Greenvoe's narrative threads and is an excellent resource for senior school pupils and students.
Author: Timothy C Baker Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748640932 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 192
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In this book Timothy C. Baker situates George Mackay Brown's work within a broad literary and philosophical context to articulate how his novels engage with the question of community.
Author: Maggie Fergusson Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848547870 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 328
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George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, admired by such fellow poets as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Charles Causley, and hailed by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies as 'the most positive and benign influence ever on my own efforts at creation', he was also an accomplished novelist (shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize for Beside the Ocean of Time) and a master of the short story. When he died in 1996, he left behind an autobiography as deft as it is ultimately uninformative. 'The lives of artists are as boring and also as uniquely fascinating as any or every other life,' he claimed. Never a recluse, he appeared open to his friends, but probably revealed more of himself in his voluminous correspondence with strangers. He never married - indeed he once wrote, 'I have never been in love in my life.' But some of his most poignant letters and poems were written to Stella Cartwright, 'the Muse of Rose Street', the gifted but tragic figure to whom he was once engaged and with whom he kept in touch until the end of her short life. Maggie Fergusson interviewed George Mackay Brown several times and is the only biographer to whom he, a reluctant subject, gave his blessing. Through his letters and through conversations with his wide acquaintance, she discovers that this particular artist's life was not only fascinating but vivid, courageous and surprising.
Author: George Mackay Brown Publisher: Birlinn Publishers ISBN: 9781904598176 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 243
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Greenvoe, the community on the Orkney Island of Hellya, has existed unchanged for generations. George Mackay Brown has recreated a week in its life, mixing history with personality in a sparkling mixture of prose and poetry.
Author: George Mackay Brown Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848549458 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 161
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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. Here we see the author's simple, bardic honesty turned on himself. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.
Author: Elizabeth Waterston Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802086853 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 362
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Illustrate a long-lasting connection between Scottish and Canadian literary traditions and illuminates the way Scottish ideas and values still wield surprising power in Canadian politics, education, theology, economics and social mores.
Author: George Mackay Brown Publisher: John Murray ISBN: 1848549512 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 251
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The small Orcadian community of Greevoe has remained unchanged for generations. Now a shady government project, Operation Black Star, threatens to destroy the islander's way of life. George Mackay Brown's first novel describes a week in the life of the islanders as the come to terms with the repercussions of Operation Black Star in a masterful mix of prose and poetry from one of Scotland's greatest writers.
Author: Berthold Schoene-Harwood Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 324
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The gradual establishment of George Mackay Brown as Orkney's literary spokesman over the last four decades has instigated a revival of the Orcadian tradition in literature. In light of Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative identity this study explores the correlations between Brown's work and the construction and maintenance of a distinct Orkney identity. It posits that communal identity derives from dynamic narrative processes merging fact and fiction into a story that is generally accepted as authentic in spite of its essentially mythic nature.
Author: Thomas Woodman Publisher: CUA Press ISBN: 0813235642 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Catholic writers have made a rich contribution to British fiction, despite their minority status. Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Muriel Spark are well-known examples, but there are many other significant novelists whose work has a Catholic aspect. This is the first book to survey the whole range of this material and examine whether valid generalizations can be made about it. In charting such fiction from its development in the Victorian period through to the work of contemporaries such as David Lodge, the author analyses its complex relationships with changes in British society and the international Church. There is more than one way of being a Catholic, as Woodman shows, but he also demosntrates that many of these writers share common themes and a distinctive perspective. They often wish in particular to use their religion as a weapon against what they portray as a complacent Protestant or secular society. Their consciousness of writing in the midst of such a society gives a special edge to their treatments of the perennial Catholic themes of suffering, sin and sex. It also has implications for literary form and relates to what has been seen as the extremist mode of Catholic fiction. The final question that Woodman puts is whether the changes in the Church since the Second Vatican Council must inevitably lead to the loss of this distinctive Catholic contribution to the novel.
Author: Jenny Stringer Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0192122711 Category : American literature Languages : en Pages : 774
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Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
Author: Alan MacGillivray
Author: Alan MacGillivray
Author: Timothy C Baker
Author: Maggie Fergusson
Author: George Mackay Brown
Author: George Mackay Brown
Author: Elizabeth Waterston
Author: George Mackay Brown
Author: Berthold Schoene-Harwood
Author: Thomas Woodman
Author: Jenny Stringer