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Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off is the best-known and
most critically acclaimed of Liz Lochhead's plays. Dramatising the
religious and political history of Scotland from a particularly
female point of view, it remains popular with audiences and with
the author herself, who sees the work as "a metaphor for the Scots
today". Margery Palmer McCulloch's SCOTNOTE study guide provides a
background to the history and to the dramatic presentation, as well
as giving an overview of the modern context of Lochhead's play, for
senior school pupils and students at all levels.
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Just Duffy (Paperback, Main)
Robin Jenkins; Introduction by Margery Palmer McCulloch
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R295
Discovery Miles 2 950
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In writing Just Duffy, a novel set amidst the urban decay of
Lanarkshire, Robin Jenkins has created a modern-day Confession of a
Justified Sinner. Convinced of his own rectitude, appalled at the
moral squalor around him, Duffy declares war on society.
Ridiculous, yet horrifying at the same time, his campaign builds to
a terrifying conclusion. Beset with ambiguity, Duffy is a ferocious
indictment of Calvinistic moral certainty, of a struggle for good
which results in only evil and destruction. The deeply ironic title
bears witness to the mismatch of Duffy's aspiration against his own
insignificance. The themes of this novel are central to all
Jenkins' work. In its stark simplicity Just Duffy lays claim to
being one of his most significant and powerful novels. Its
inexorable drive and power bear witness to a modern Greek tragedy
played out on a Scottish stage.
The twentieth-century Scottish renaissance - the literary and
artistic revival which followed the end of the First World War -
advanced a claim for a distinctive Scottish identity: cultural,
political and national. Unlike earlier nineteenth-century Celtic
revivals, this renaissance was both outward-looking and confidently
contemporary; it embraced continental European influences as well
as those of Anglophone writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and
Lawrence, and contributed to the development of what we now call
modernism. This collection of essays, from fourteen scholars,
illustrates the strongly international and modernist dimension of
Scotland's interwar revival, and illuminates the relationships
between Scottish and non-Scottish writers and contexts. It also
includes two chapters on the contribution made to this revival by
Scottish visual art and music. These essays are based on papers
originally presented at the 38th ASLS Annual Conference, 'Scottish
and International Modernism', held at the University of Stirling,
6-7 June 2009.
Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish
poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in
twentieth-century Scottish culture. His poetry is both compelling
in its intellectual challenge and captivating in its lyrical
beauty. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic
preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key
national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.
It offers a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship through
contributions by leading scholars of the modern period which
provide a contextual and interpretive guide to this challenging
writer. All of MacDiarmid's major poetic works are examined in
addition to a representative selection of his diverse output in
other genres, from journalism to shorter fiction, autobiography and
political polemic. His poetry and his place in the cultural history
of Scottish, British and international modernism will be
contemporised through consideration of his significance from a
European, transatlantic and ecological global perspective. This
collection of essays on MacDiarmid will draw on the creative and
discursive writings made newly available through the recent
publication of previously uncollected work. Key features: * Updates
and internationalises MacDiarmid studies * Provides informed
analysis and contextualisation of MacDiarmid's poetry through close
readings of texts * Utilises recently published MacDiarmid material
* Contributes to a re-drawing of the map of international literary
modernism
Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish
poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in
twentieth-century Scottish culture. His poetry is both compelling
in its intellectual challenge and captivating in its lyrical
beauty. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic
preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key
national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.
It offers a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship through
contributions by leading scholars of the modern period which
provide a contextual and interpretive guide to this challenging
writer. All of MacDiarmid's major poetic works are examined in
addition to a representative selection of his diverse output in
other genres, from journalism to shorter fiction, autobiography and
political polemic. His poetry and his place in the cultural history
of Scottish, British and international modernism will be
contemporised through consideration of his significance from a
European, transatlantic and ecological global perspective. This
collection of essays on MacDiarmid will draw on the creative and
discursive writings made newly available through the recent
publication of previously uncollected work. Key features: * Updates
and internationalises MacDiarmid studies * Provides informed
analysis and contextualisation of MacDiarmid's poetry through close
readings of texts * Utilises recently published MacDiarmid material
* Contributes to a re-drawing of the map of international literary
modernism
This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of
an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its
international significance as a Scottish literary modernism
interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European
modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish
cultural and political context. Topics range from the
revitalisation of the Scots vernacular as an avant-garde literary
language in the 1920s and the interaction of literature and
politics in the 1930s to the fictional re-imagining of the
Highlands, the response of women writers to a changing modern world
and the manifestations of a late modernism in the 1940s and 1950s.
Writers featured include Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon,
Neil M. Gunn, Edwin and Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell, Sydney
Goodsir Smith and Sorley MacLean. Key Features *The first study of
a Scottish modernism extending in its impact to the 1950s and
drawing on influences from British and European modernism *Original
perspectives on the literature of the period through discussion of
a range of writers and writing genres *Detailed consideration of
the work of women writers in the context of modernism and in their
response to social change *A contribution to the expansion of the
idea of modernism in its focus both on the modernist artist's role
in social and national renewal and on writing from the peripheries
of small town, rural and island cultures in contrast to
metropolitan culture
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