Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Released on by Berthold Schoene
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  • Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature Book Detail

  • Author : Berthold Schoene
  • Release Date : 2007-04-11
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 432
  • ISBN 13 : 0748630287
  • File Size : 33,33 MB
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Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by Berthold Schoene PDF Summary

Book Description: 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,

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Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh

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The subcultural enfant terrible of devolutionary protest and rebellion, Irvine Welsh is now widely acknowledged as the founding father of a whole new tradition