Author: Maurice LindsayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry
Author: Maurice LindsayPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470270
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-century Scottish Poetry
Author: Maurice LindsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The most wide-ranging anthology of twentieth-century poetry in English and Scots available.
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union (until 1707)
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The History begins with the first full-scale critical consideration of Scotland's earliest literature, drawn from the diverse cultures and languages of its early peoples. The first volume covers the literature produced during the medieval and early modern period in Scotland, surveying the riches of Scottish work in Gaelic, Welsh, Old Norse, Old English and Old French, as well as in Latin and Scots. New scholarship is brought to bear, not only on imaginative literature, but also law, politics, theology and philosophy, all placed in the context of the evolution of Scotland's geography, history, languages and material cultures from our earliest times up to 1707.
Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry
Author: Matt McGuirePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748636277
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748636951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 19, Literary Devolution: Writing in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England
Author: E. S. ShafferPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521592512
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The theme of volume 19 is 'Literary Devolution: Writing Now in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England', and includes poetry from Scotland, with essays by David Kinloch and Christopher Whyte on Socttish Gaelic; and poetry from Wales with essays by Jerry Hunter and Sam Adams; from Ireland, three cantos of John Montague's new poem on David Jones, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill's Gaelic poetry translated by Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuickan, and a new play by Vincent Woods, acclaimed in performance and published here for the first time; and English poetry together with new fiction by Iain Sinclair. It also includes an interview with Nathaniel Tarn, editor of innovative Cape Goliard Editions. Translation from European poets into English and Scottish is a seminal feature of poetry in this period, represented here by translation from the Polish by Seamus Heaney, from Mayakovsky by Edwin Morgan, from Rimbaud and Mandelstam by Alistair Mackie; and Sylvia Plath's translations from the French reviewed by Alistair Elliot.
A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
Author: Neil RobertsPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470998660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this Companion strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. The Companion embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the 'canonical' and the 'marginal' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various national traditions. Discussion of context, intertextualities and formal approaches illustrates the increasing self-consciousness and self-reflexivity of the period, whilst a 'Readings' section offers new readings of key selected texts. The volume as a whole offers critical and contextual coverage of the full range of English-language poetry in the last century.
Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century Scottish Literature
Author: Ian BrownPublisher: Edinburgh Companions to Scotti
ISBN: 9780748636945
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume considers the major themes, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the twentieth and, so far, twenty-first century. Moving beyond traditional classifications, it draws on the most recent critical approaches to open up new perspectives on Scottish literature since 1900.
Literature of Scotland
Author: Roderick WatsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350308838
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Critics hailed the first edition of The Literature of Scotland as one of the most comprehensive and fascinatingly readable accounts of Scottish literature in all three of the country's languages - Gaelic, Scots and English. In this extensively revised and expanded new edition, Roderick Watson traces the lives and works of Scottish writers in a beautiful and rugged country that has been divided by political and religious conflict but united, too, by a democratic and egalitarian ideal of nationhood. The Literature of Scotland: The Twentieth Century provides a comprehensive account of the richest ever period in Scottish literary history. From The House with the Green Shutters to Trainspotting and far beyond, this companion volume to The Literature of Scotland: The Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century gives a critical and historical context to the upsurge of writing in the languages of Scotland. Roderick Watson covers a wide range of modern and contemporary Scottish authors including: MacDiarmid, MacLean, Grassic Gibbon, Gunn, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, Alasdair Gray, Edwin Morgan, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Kathleen Jamie and many, many more! Also featuring an extended list of Further Reading and a helpful chronological timeline, this is an indispensable introduction to the great variety of Scottish writing which has emerged since the start of the twentieth century.
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010
Author: Edward LarrissyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107090660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.