The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies: New Visions, Old Dreams - Brossura

Wallace, Gavin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748604154 ISBN 13: 9780748604159

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 1993

Riassunto

The last two decades have seen a new renaissance in Scottish literary culture in which the Scottish novel has attained new heights of maturity, confidence and challenge. The Scottish Novel since the Seventies is the first major critical reassessment of the developments in this period. Ranging from the work of longer-established authors such as Robin Jenkins, Muriel Spark and William McIlvanney to the more recent experiments of Alasdair Gray, James Kelman and Janice Galloway, it provides a new critical focus on the intriguing relationship between continuity and innovation which characterises the novel's response to the complex changes in Scottish culture and society during the past twenty years. The contributors assess the work of an extensive number of writers in the context of a correspondingly wide range of issues: gender, postmodernism, political identity, archaism and myth, and the theme of disintegration. There are also chapters on the continuing growth of the 'Glasgow novel' and film adaptatio

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0748604154
• ISBN 13: 9780748604159
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Stevenson Randall