Scottish Literature by Alan Riach sampler
Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime’s experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland’s many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of ‘Scottish Literature’: key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic. Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.
Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime’s experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature.
A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland’s many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of ‘Scottish Literature’: key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic.
Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.
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32 The Tavern Sages and Ferrier, Baillie, Brunton,<br />
Oliphant, Cockburn and Reid 298<br />
33 Victorian Sages from Thomas Carlyle to Margaret Oliphant 304<br />
34 Gaelic poetry of the 19th century 310<br />
35 Prophet of modernity: Robert Louis Stevenson 315<br />
36 Stevenson’s contemporaries: from Charles Mackay to Florence Dixie 322<br />
37 Writers of the Industrial Revolution: from Thomas Campbell<br />
to Arthur Conan Doyle 327<br />
38 Gaelic poetry: from 19th century to the 20th century 332<br />
39 Beyond the Kailyard 338<br />
40 The internationalists: from R.B. Cunninghame Graham to Violet Jacob 352<br />
41 Gaelic poetry of the early 20th century 357<br />
42 Playwrights and plays: from Joanna Baillie to John Brandane 363<br />
43 Renaissance: Hugh MacDiarmid 369<br />
44 Questions of language: William Soutar and Edwin Muir 383<br />
45 Thin ice and voluminous works: Compton Mackenzie<br />
and Naomi Mitchison 389<br />
46 The morning star: Lewis Grassic Gibbon 394<br />
47 Matters of spirit: Neil Gunn 399<br />
48 Tragedy and comedy: Fionn Mac Colla and Eric Linklater 404<br />
49 Self-determinations: Catherine Carswell, Nan Shepherd and Willa Muir 409<br />
50 Playwrights and plays: Joe Corrie, James Bridie, Joan Littlewood<br />
and Ewan MacColl 413<br />
51 Edinburgh and Lochinver: Robert Garioch and Norman MacCaig 421<br />
52 Love and war: Somhairle MacGill-Eain / Sorley MacLean<br />
and Sydney Goodsir Smith 425<br />
53 Scouts of the limits: W.S. Graham<br />
and Deòrsa mac Iain Dheòrsa / George Campbell Hay 430<br />
54 Folk song and the dance of the intellect: Hamish Henderson<br />
and Edwin Morgan 437<br />
55 Deadliness and grace: Robin Jenkins and Muriel Spark 443<br />
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