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Author:   Scott Lyall
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.586kg
ISBN:  

9789004317444

ISBN 10:   9004317449
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   12 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, Scottish Gaelic

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Editor’s Acknowledgements Preface: In Search of Community SCOTT LYALL Introduction: ‘Tenshillingland’: Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel SCOTT LYALL The Lonely Island: Exile and Community in Recent Island Writing TIMOTHY C. BAKER Individual, Community and Conflict in Scottish Working-Class Fiction, 1920–1940 H. GUSTAV KLAUS Speaking for Oneself and Others: Real and Imagined Communities in Gaelic Poetry from the Nineteenth Century to the Present EMMA DYMOCK Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community SCOTT LYALL Becoming Anon: Hamish Henderson, Community and the ‘Folk Process’ COREY GIBSON The Alternative Communities of Alexander Trocchi GILL TASKER Scottish Drama: The Expanded Community TRISH REID Alienation and Community in Contemporary Scottish Fiction: The Case of Janice Galloway’s The Trick is to Keep Breathing ALEX THOMSON From Subtext to Gaytext? Scottish Fiction’s Queer Communities CAROLE JONES ‘Maybe singing into yourself’: James Kelman, Inner Speech and Vocal Communion SCOTT HAMES The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry BASHABI FRASER Community Spirit? Haunting Secrets and Displaced Selves in Contemporary Scottish Fiction MONICA GERMANÀ Bibliography Index

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[...] a smart and often fascinating step into a much-needed area of enquiry. Unsurprisingly for a collection including some of the most interesting and recognised writers on modern Scottish literature, it stands as a useful literary history on its own, and contains some valuable and highly original accounts of familiar and unfamiliar texts. Like the other SCROLL collections, it is beautifully presented and organised and will hopefully be attractive to libraries in Scotland and elsewhere, and should find a place on many undergraduate reading lists. The book is welcome and important, and we should try to ensure it is widely read. - Michael Gardiner, University of Warwick, in Scottish Literary Review, Vol.9.2 (2017) [...] as this book points out, community perhaps really becomes most interesting when examined at the microlevel, when examined through the lens of particular writers, texts and contexts. Lyall lets the chapters speak for themselves and perhaps this is fair enough. - Eleanor Bell, Brock University in Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Vol. 4 No. 1 pp. 132-142

... a smart and often fascinating step into a much-needed area of enquiry. Unsurprisingly for a collection including some of the most interesting and recognised writers on modern Scottish literature, it stands as a useful literary history on its own, and contains some valuable and highly original accounts of familiar and unfamiliar texts. Like the other SCROLL collections, it is beautifully presented and organised and will hopefully be attractive to libraries in Scotland and elsewhere, and should find a place on many undergraduate reading lists. The book is welcome and important, and we should try to ensure it is widely read. - Michael Gardiner, University of Warwick, in Scottish Literary Review, Vol.9.2 (2017)

Author Information

Scott Lyall is Lecturer in Modern Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. He is author of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic (EUP, 2006), and has edited books on MacDiarmid and Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

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