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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Scottish Literature"”.
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The Queer Moment: Post-Devolution Scottish Literature
… dramatic changes in the construction of Scottish national identity across the period 1999-2015; it identifies a move from hypermasculine Scottish identity at the end of the twentieth century to a queer national identity in 2015. This thesis argues that this is a product of the dramatic …
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The invention of Scottish literature during the long eighteenth century
"The invention of Scottish Literature During the Long Eighteenth Century" examines the limited place in the canon traditionally allowed to creative writing in Scotland during this period and the overarching reading of creative impediment applied to it in the light of Scotland's fraught and not …
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The image of the nation as a woman in twentieth century Scottish literature: Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison, Alasdair Gray
… as a woman in the work of the twentieth century Scottish writers Hugh MacDiarmid, Naomi Mitchison and Alasdair Gray. The image of nation as woman, whether as mother, virgin, goddess or victim is widespread in European iconography from the eighteenth century onwards, but is not common in Scotland …
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O. Douglas and the borders of fictional identity
… is to contribute to the developing research in Scottish literature and the broader movement of recovery of forgotten or comparatively neglected Scottish (women) writers.
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to …
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Hunting Captain Henley
… uprising at Suez in 1951. In his 1919 book Scottish Literature: Character and Influence G. Gregory Smith first coined the phrase Caledonian Antisyzygy to spotlight the zigzag of contradictions at the heart of Scottish Literature, especially under the stress of foreign (in particular English) …
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The historicity of Barbour's 'Bruce'
… as a fundamentally important contribution to Scottish literature.
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James Barke: Politics, Cinema and Writing Scottish Urban Modernity
This thesis examines the early works of the Scottish novelist, playwright, would-be screenwriter, commentator and political agitator, James Barke, to argue that he was a more significant figure on the Scottish literary scene than his place in the canon would suggest. The purpose in so doing is to …
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George MacDonald's Lilith A: A Transcription
George MacDonald's last major work of fiction, Lilith, was published in 1895, but the first version of the romance was written in March of 1890. Lilith is an account of the unintentional journey of the protagonist into another world populated by both mythological figures drawn from the …
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Loyalty - bounden duty or liberating challenge? An enquiry into issues of loyalty in a selection of novels by Stuart Hood, James Kennaway and Allan Massie
… and as such has featured strongly throughout literature, from ancient Greek drama to the present day. Nevertheless, there is no study of loyalty in Scottish literature. This thesis will close this gap by examining how issues of loyalty are presented in the fiction of these authors. …
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Connectivity and Contemporaneity in Ali Smith’s Oeuvre: A Critical Study
… the complete works (to date) of the contemporary Scottish writer Ali Smith. I explore the remarkable but diffuse critical attention to Smith's writing while positing an original single-author approach gleaned from sustained attention across her experimentation with literary forms and genres, …