This is an original exploration of the way in which national and cultural identities are made, remade and changed in the melting pot of a culture's imaginative literature. Concentrating primarily on modern Scottish literature (but also drawing on some literature of the past), literary theory and critical analysis merge with literary and cultural history to offer a series of original insights to contemporary Scottish cultural identity. Divided into four sections - "Voices", "Places", "Other Selves" and "Subjects" - each explores a different aspect of literary, cultural and psychological identity. Professor Watson has selected the authors which best represent this making of identity in Scottish literature, including: Burns; Crichton Smith; Galloway; Goodsir Smith; Grassic Gibbon; Hogg; Jenkins; Kelman; Kennedy; Legge; Lochhead; MacCaig; McIlvanney; Scott; Shepherd; Warner; and Welsh. The book is aimed at the general reader interested in Scottish culture as well as students studying Scottish literature - the key authors on such courses are covered. New readings of well-studied texts should make for a provocative and stimulating book.
- ISBN10 0748614249
- ISBN13 9780748614240
- Publish Date 1 September 2006
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Edinburgh University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English