Author: Catriona M.M. MacDonald
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788856023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period. Catroina MacDonald underlines the tensions inherent in the life of a nation distinguished by stark changes and surprising continuities, a fragmented identity, a shifting and at times uneasy accommodation in the UK nation state, and an ongoing engagement with globalising tendencies. In identifying the choices, ambitions, possibilities and contradictions that Scotland experienced during a century of profound change, she uncovers a country in which one can truly say extremes met.
Whaur Extremes Meet
Author: Catriona M.M. MacDonald
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788856023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period. Catroina MacDonald underlines the tensions inherent in the life of a nation distinguished by stark changes and surprising continuities, a fragmented identity, a shifting and at times uneasy accommodation in the UK nation state, and an ongoing engagement with globalising tendencies. In identifying the choices, ambitions, possibilities and contradictions that Scotland experienced during a century of profound change, she uncovers a country in which one can truly say extremes met.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788856023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
On the cusp of memory and history, the story of Scotland's twentieth-century is contested territory: international yet parochial; prosperous yet ailing; and, passionate yet temperate. This thematic account of Scotland's twentieth century examines the economic, social, political and cultural aspects that shaped the country during the period. Catroina MacDonald underlines the tensions inherent in the life of a nation distinguished by stark changes and surprising continuities, a fragmented identity, a shifting and at times uneasy accommodation in the UK nation state, and an ongoing engagement with globalising tendencies. In identifying the choices, ambitions, possibilities and contradictions that Scotland experienced during a century of profound change, she uncovers a country in which one can truly say extremes met.
Whaur Extremes Meet
Author: Catherine Kerrigan
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Thin
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Thin
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Thistle and Rose
Author: Annie Boutelle
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By examining the poems chronologically and sympathetically and by exploring the relationship of language, formal dynamics, image, and theme, this study attempts to discover the essence of MacDiarmid's highly individual contribution to the poetry of this century.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By examining the poems chronologically and sympathetically and by exploring the relationship of language, formal dynamics, image, and theme, this study attempts to discover the essence of MacDiarmid's highly individual contribution to the poetry of this century.
Transportable Environments
Author: Robert Kronenburg
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135805784
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team of international commentators, this volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this specialist area and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals across the construction and design industries.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135805784
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Transportable Environments explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today, the varied forms that it takes and the concerns and ideas for its future development. Written by a team of international commentators, this volume provides a state-of-the-art survey of this specialist area and will be of interest to a wide range of professionals across the construction and design industries.
Where Extremes Meet
Dooble Tongue
Author: Jeffrey Skoblow
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137286
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
'Dooble Tongue' is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W.N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, then further back to Burns himself, the study of the Scottish tradition is situated in a broad historical context. The focus throughout is on language (particularly Scots), more broadly vernacular literature in relation to culturally elite literary and critical modes- as well as on questions of literary nationalism and the cultural politics of poetic discourse.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874137286
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
'Dooble Tongue' is an imaginative meditation on Robert Burns and Scottish poetry, as well as a book that engages and contests the customary assumptions and practices of literary criticism. Beginning with an examination of two contemporary Scottish poets, W.N. Herbert and Robert Crawford, and moving back in time to the Scottish Modernist master Hugh MacDiarmid, then further back to Burns himself, the study of the Scottish tradition is situated in a broad historical context. The focus throughout is on language (particularly Scots), more broadly vernacular literature in relation to culturally elite literary and critical modes- as well as on questions of literary nationalism and the cultural politics of poetic discourse.
Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides
Author: Lesley Riddoch
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804250376
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and economic change. Her experience is described in a typically affectionate but hard-hitting style; with humour, anecdote and a growing sympathy for islanders tired of living at the margins but fearful of closer contact with mainland Scotland.
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804250376
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides is a thought-provoking commentary based on broadcaster Lesley Riddoch's cycle journey through a beautiful island chain facing seismic cultural and economic change. Her experience is described in a typically affectionate but hard-hitting style; with humour, anecdote and a growing sympathy for islanders tired of living at the margins but fearful of closer contact with mainland Scotland.
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
Author: Peter Mackay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Author: Scott Lyall
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688293
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.
Sport and the Irish
Author: Alan Bairner
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
ISBN: 1910820938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Consides the relationship between sport, national identities and gender in a contemporary Irish context
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
ISBN: 1910820938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Consides the relationship between sport, national identities and gender in a contemporary Irish context