The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn (Hardcover)

The twentieth-century novelist Neil M. Gunn is best remembered for his evocative accounts of Highland life as given in The Silver Darlings, Morning Tide and Highland River. In The Fabulous Matter of Fact, Richard Price goes beyond this starting point and provides the reader with both a comprehensive study of all Gunn's extant novels (including an early unpublished novel), and a detailed account of the literary context within which Gunn worked. Close textual criticism is enriched by references to Gunn's poetry, short stories, essays and letters, and many of his key sources and allusions are identified for the first time. Price explores Gunn's early literary relationship with the Celtic Twilight writers of the late nineteenth century, and his subsequent relation to the work of modernists such as Eliot and Proust, showing that Gunn was much more aware of literary movements than has been believed. Price also describes the historical context of the 1940s, focusing on Gunn's complex reaction to the war and his views on the nature of freedom, and he traces the extent, in Gunn's later novels, of his increasing interest in the limitations and loci of human compassion. Including useful plot summaries and a radical re-reading of the novels from the mid-1940s onwards, this is the most wide-ranging, approachable and informative guide to the work of Neil M. Gunn available.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1991
First published:	May 1992
Authors:	Richard Price
Dimensions:	223 x 144 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	223
ISBN-13:	978-0-7486-0259-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > From 1900
LSN:	0-7486-0259-3
Barcode:	9780748602599

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