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Author: T. Baker
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-29
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1137457201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474408206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Author: Alan Bissett
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of contemporary Scottish gothic fiction. As well as a bloody and turbulent history, Scotland has produced some of the world's most eerie and disturbing fiction. The national psyche seethes with Tam O'Shanters and Mr Hydes, justified sinners and wasp factories, monstrous apparitions, witches, doppelgangers and psychopaths. Here, a selection of Scottish writers have plumbed their depths, creating a set of demons for a modern age: Ali Smith's neo-Nazi, Alison Armstrong's transvestite serial-killer, Brian McCabe's abominable neck-boil, James Robertson's mutant mouse, Toni Davidson's confused sado-masochist. Be frozen by Maggie O'Farrell's quiet touch or be appalled at Andrew Murray Scott's putrescent landscape. Experience fork and knife disorder with Jackie Kay or receive sinister letters from Helen Lamb.
Author: John Corbett
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive introduction to the study of older and present-day Scots language.
Author: Carol Margaret Davison
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-03-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1474408214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten from various critical standpoints by internationally renowned scholars, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion interrogates the ways in which the concepts of the Gothic and Scotland have intersected and been manipulated from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day. This interdisciplinary collection is the first ever published study to investigate the multifarious strands of Gothic in Scottish fiction, poetry, theatre and film. Its contributors - all specialists in their fields - combine an attention to socio-historical and cultural contexts with a rigorous close reading of works, both classic and lesser known, produced between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-29
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 1107494486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author: Duncan J. Petrie
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The last 20 years have witnessed an unprecedented flourishing of cultural expression in Scotland, regarded by some as a response to a growing sense of political disenfranchisement. Contemporary Scottish Fictions explores some of the major figures, works, themes and aesthetics of this cultural renaissance in the high profile areas of film, television drama and the novel." "This book is aimed at a wide readership of students and academics in Scottish Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in contemporary Scottish culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: James Robertson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-02-26
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1101650486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertson takes a tantalizing trip into the spiritual by way of a haunting paranormal mystery. When Reverend Gideon Mack, a good minister despite his atheism, tumbles into a deep ravine called the Black Jaws, he is presumed dead. Three days later, however, he emerges bruised but alive-and insistent that his rescuer was Satan himself. Against the background of an incredulous world, Mack's disturbing odyssey and the tortuous life that led to it create a mesmerizing meditation on faith, mortality, and the power of the unknown.
Author: Victor Sage
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780719042072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated and the fantastic. The book represents a variety of approaches from a group of international scholars to the making of a contemporary tradition. It offers information and interpretation concerning the presence of gothicism in a number of different contexts. There are essays on postmodernism and gothicism; the politics of neo-Gothic pertrification in Iain Banks and John Banville; the horrors of the pre-oedipal Father in Blue Velvet; the gothic unconscious of feminist criticism; postmodern feminine horror fiction; Isak Dinesen; serial form in slasher and monster movies; Toni Morrison's gothic spaces in Beloved; Stephen King; Angela Carter; 1950s body snatching and alien invasions; postcolonial gothic; and Ramsay Campbell's debt to the traditional gothic.
Author: Gerard Carruthers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-12-24
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0521189365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
