Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature

Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9780748630288
ISBN-13 : 0748630287
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Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature by : Berthold Schoene

Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature written by Berthold Schoene and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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