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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Literature). Ian Brown, Alan Riach

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Language: English
Page: 288
ISBN: 0748636943, 9780748636945

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This welcome volume is one of the new Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature series. Written by experts in the field including Professors John Corbett, Douglas Gifford [and] Alan Riach ... This volume adds great value to the existing more general material. -- Penny Dade Reference Reviews Brown and Riach... respond to T.S. Elliot's alleged 1919 quip--"Was there a Scottish Literature?"--overwhelmingly in the affirmative. Preceded by a valuable introduction, the 18 self-standing chapters, contributed mostly by established Scottish academics (e.g. Douglas Gifford, Murray Pittock, Roderick Watson, Cairns Craig, John Corbett), provide a mass of material... Useful notes and bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. -- J. Walker, Queen's University at Kingston Choice This collection not only fits the bill in terms of a comprehensive, illustrative range of discussions which give the reader a deep since of Scottish writing in the twentieth century, but it also offers thought-provoking and engaging perspectives on that terrain which go beyond a mere guide and provide a set of snapshots of luring intellectual pathways... This is a really great, resourceful and illuminating book. -- Aaron Kelly Scottish Literary Review This welcome volume is one of the new Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature series. Written by experts in the field including Professors John Corbett, Douglas Gifford [and] Alan Riach ... This volume adds great value to the existing more general material. Brown and Riach... respond to T.S. Elliot's alleged 1919 quip--"Was there a Scottish Literature?"--overwhelmingly in the affirmative. Preceded by a valuable introduction, the 18 self-standing chapters, contributed mostly by established Scottish academics (e.g. Douglas Gifford, Murray Pittock, Roderick Watson, Cairns Craig, John Corbett), provide a mass of material... Useful notes and bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. This collection not only fits the bill in terms of a comprehensive, illustrative range of discussions which give the reader a deep since of Scottish writing in the twentieth century, but it also offers thought-provoking and engaging perspectives on that terrain which go beyond a mere guide and provide a set of snapshots of luring intellectual pathways... This is a really great, resourceful and illuminating book.

About the Author

Ian Brown is a freelance scholar and arts and education consultant. Founding editor of the International Journal of Scottish Theatre, he has been professor of drama, dean of arts, and director of the Scottish Centre for Cultural Management and Policy at Queen Margaret University College and, before that, drama director of the Arts Council in England. Alan Riach holds the Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and previously was associate professor and pro-dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He is the general editor of the Collected Works of Hugh MacDiarmid and the author of Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography and Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry.