The Literature of Scotland (The history of literature)

Watson, Roderick:

ISBN 10: 0333269233 / ISBN 13: 9780333269237

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 15.11.1984., 1984

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416 Seiten ex Library Book aus einer wissenschafltichen Bibliothek Ohne Schutzumschlag Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 969.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Literature of Scotland (The history of literature)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 15.11.1984.
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333269233
• ISBN 13: 9780333269237
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 969 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Alle Bücher

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Synopsis

Traces the history of Scottish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the fourteenth century to the 1980s and profiles the careers of outstanding Scottish authors

From the Back Cover

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.