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A Flame in the Mearns - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Centenary Celebration (Paperback)
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A Flame in the Mearns - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Centenary Celebration (Paperback)
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LEWIS GRASSIC GIBBON (1901-1935) is one of the best known of early
twentieth-century Scottish writers. Born James Leslie Mitchell, he
grew up in the Mearns area of north-east Scotland, a landscape and
farming life he recreated vividly in Sunset Song, the first book of
his Scots Quair trilogy, published in 1932. A favourite for all
ages, Gibbon's work is studied by students at all levels. A Flame
in the Mearns is a unique collection of scholarly discussion and
criticism and will be of interest to senior school pupils, college
and university students, academics and lovers of literature. This
new collection of essays celebrates Gibbon's achievement in his own
time while emphasising his continuing relevance today -
particularly the strong depiction of women in his fiction and his
innovative narrative style which anticipates the work of writers
such as Kelman and Welsh. This relationship with contemporary
writers is most noticeable in the urban setting and political
context of Grey Granite, while Sunset Song, with its engaging
heroine Chris Guthrie, regularly appears in listings of the most
popular Scottish novels. A Flame in the Mearns contains discussions
of Gibbon's fiction, essays and little-known poetry, together with
analyses of his language and politics. It is essential for all
students and existing admirers as well as new readers of this
important Scottish writer.
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