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.
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.
A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry
Author: Jane DowsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521819466
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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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.
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.
George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Author: Linden BicketPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474411665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor.This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.