The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748623957 ISBN 13: 9780748623952

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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,

About this title

About the Author:

Berthold Schoene is Professor of English and Director of the English Research Institute at the Manchester Metropolitan University

Review:

A comprehensive, lucky-dip kind of volume... that will provoke debate on literature, colture, and national politics... Highly recommended.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0748623957
• ISBN 13: 9780748623952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Schoene Berthold