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Title The Edinburgh companion to contemporary Scottish literature / edited by Berthold Schoene
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2007]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 424 pages)
Series Online access with purchase: JSTOR
Contents Going cosmopolitan : reconstituting Scottishness in post-devolution criticism / Berthold Schoene -- Voyages of intent : literature and cultural politics in post-devolution Scotland / Gavin Wallace -- In Tom Paine's kitchen : days of rage and fire / Suhayl Saadi -- The public image : Scottish literature in the media / Andrew Crumey -- Literature, theory, politics : devolution as iteration / Michael Gardiner -- Is that a Scot or am ah wrang? / Zoë Strachan -- The 'new Weegies' : the Glasgow novel in the twenty-first century / Alan Bissett -- Devolution and drama : imagining the possible / Adrienne Scullion -- Twenty-one collections for the twenty-first century / Christopher Whyte -- Shifting boundaries : Scottish Gaelic literature after devolution / Máire Ní Annracháin -- Pedlars of their nation's past : Douglas Galbraith, James Robertson and the new historical novel / Mariadele Boccardi -- Scottish television drama and parochial representation / Gordon Gibson and Sarah Neely -- Scotland's new house : domesticity and domicile in contemporary Scottish women's poetry / Alice Entwistle -- Redevelopment fiction : architecture, town-planning and unhomeliness / Peter Clandfield and Christian Lloyd -- Concepts of corruption : crime fiction and the Scottish state / Gill Plain -- A key to the future : hybridity in contemporary children's fiction / Fiona McCulloch -- Gaelic prose fiction in English / Michelle Macleod -- Towards a Scottish theatrocracy : Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead / Colin Nicholson -- Alasdair Gray and post-millennial writing / Stephen Bernstein -- James Kelman and the deterritorialisation of power / Aaron Kelly -- Harnessing plurality : Andrew Greig and modernism / Simon Dentith -- Radical hospitality : Christopher Whyte and cosmopolitanism / Fiona Wilson -- Iain (M.) Banks : utopia, nationalism and the posthuman / Gavin Miller -- Burying the man that was : Janice Galloway and gender disorientation / Carole Jones -- In/outside Scotland : race and citizenship in the work of Jackie Kay / Matthew Brown -- Irvine Welsh : parochialism, pornography and globalisation / Robert Morace -- Clearing space : Kathleen Jamie and ecology / Louisa Gairn -- Don Paterson and poetic autonomy / Scott Hames -- Alan Warner, post-feminism and the emasculated nation / Berthold Schoene -- A.L. Kennedy's dysphoric fiction / David Borthwick -- Between camps : masculinity, race and nation in post-devolution Scotland / Alice Ferrebe -- Crossing the borderline : post-devolution Scottish lesbian and gay writing / Joanne Winning -- Subaltern Scotland : devotion and postcoloniality / Stefanie Lehner -- Mark Renton's bairns : identity and language in the post-Trainspotting novel / Kirstin Innes -- Cultural devolutions : Scotland, Northern Ireland and the return of the postmodern / Matthew McGuire -- Alternative sensibilities : devolutionary comedy and Scottish camp / Ian Brown -- Against realism : contemporary Scottish literature and the supernatural / Kirsty Macdonald -- A double realm : Scottish literary translation in the twenty-first century / John Corbett -- Scots abroad : the international receptions of Scottish literature / Katherine Ashley -- A very interesting place : representing Scotland in American romance novels / Euan Hague and David Stenhouse -- Cinema and the economics of representation : public funding of film in Scotland / Duncan Petrie -- Twenty-first century storytelling : context, performance, renaissance / Valentina Bold
Summary The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature examines the ways in which the cultural and political role of Scottish writing has changed since the country's successful referendum on national self-rule in 1997. In doing so, it makes a convincing case for a distinctive post-devolution Scottish criticism. Introducing over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' - the volume covers the entire spectrum of current interests and topical concerns in the field of Scottish studies and heralds a new era in Scottish writing, literary criticism and cultural theory. It records and critically outlines prominent literary trends and developments, the specific political circumstances and aesthetic agendas that propel them, as well as literature's capacity for envisioning new and alternative futures. Issues under discussion include class, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalisation, the New Europe and cosmopolitan citizenship, postcoloniality, as well as questions of multiculturalism, ethnicity and race. Written by critics from around the world - and by several creative writers - the work of solidly established Scottish authors is discussed alongside that of relative newcomers who have entered the scene over the past ten years or currently emergent writers who are still in the process of getting noticed as part of a new literary avant-garde. Key Features Defines a new period in Scottish literary history: 'post-devolution Scottish literature' Introduces over forty original essays under four main headings - 'Contexts', 'Genres', 'Authors' and 'Topics' Positions literature within the broadest possible cultural framework, from history, politics and economics to new creative technologies, ecology and the media Likely to become the 'standard' work of criticism appealing to students, teachers, researchers and critics as well as to a general readership interested in Scottish literary affairs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-416) and index
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Subject English literature -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
Scottish literature -- History and criticism
Scottish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Scottish literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
English literature -- Scottish authors
Scottish literature
Bellettrie.
Schotland.
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Schoene-Harwood, Berthold.
ISBN 9780748630288
0748630287
1282136399
9781282136397
9786612136399
6612136391