Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 277 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781908980403
Series Statement:
Occasional Papers 26
Content:
These fourteen essays explore literary manifestations of Scottishness and examine the political, religious and cultural complexities that have shaped Scottish writing and performance through the centuries.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright -- Body -- Introduction -- 1. Inscribing Scottishness in Language, Space, and Performance since the Seventeenth Century -- 2. Lethington, Marie Maitland, and the 'Maitland Quarto': Memorialisation and Performance in Times of 'Troubill' for Scotland -- 3. Translating Identities: Tracing the Transfer of a Scottish Origin Myth from Scotland to France c. 1519 -- 4. 'Losing its religion'? Scottish Literature and Confessional Identity -- 5. Collective Identities and the Other in Scottish Jacobite Songs -- 6. Napoleon and Ossian: Celtomania and the Construction of French Nationhood -- 7. Transatlantic 'Scott-land': Re-locating the Late Waverley Novels within a Transatlantic Discussion -- 8. Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland -- 9. The Safe Nationalisms of Hugh MacDiarmid and Compton Mackenzie -- 10. Situating the Gael in Scottish Landscapes: Self-Identity and Change in Twentieth-Century Gaelic Poetry -- 11. Critiquing Scotland's Clever Clocks and MacGrundies: Willa Muir's Nationalist Feminism -- 12. 'This is Scotland, by Christ!': Cultural Nationalism and National (Re)Branding in the Cinematic Adaptations of Irvine Welsh -- 13. George Davie's Democratic Intellect in Context -- 14. Writing Scottishness in Post-imperial, Post-devolution Theatre: a Conversation -- Back matter -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- Back cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781908980397
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781908980397
Language:
English
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