100 Best Scottish Books Of All Time
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100 Best Scottish Books of All Time
Author | : Willy Maley,Brian Donaldson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Best books |
ISBN | : 1901077179 |
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Scotland s Books
Author | : Robert Crawford |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 848 |
Release | : 2009-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199888979 |
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From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.
50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland
Author | : Allan Brown |
Publsiher | : Constable |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781472103390 |
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To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They?re all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.
100 Favourite Scottish Poems
Author | : Stewart Conn |
Publsiher | : Luath Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 1905222610 |
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Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation had a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 favourite Scottish poems - incorporating the nation's best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Scotland listeners poll - ranges from the ballads of Burns from Proud Maisie to The Queen of Sheba, and from Cuddle Doon to The Jeelie Piece Song.
Sunset Song
Author | : Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2022-11-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547390701 |
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Sunset Song is widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century. Chris Guthrie, the female protagonist, is a strong character who grows up in a dysfunctional farming family. Life is hard after her dad's death and she must take some tough decisions to save her farms under the inevitable threat of World War I . . . Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (1901-1935), a Scottish writer famous for his contribution to the Scottish Renaissance and portrayal of strong female characters.
The Ruins of Experience
Author | : Matthew Wickman |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812203950 |
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There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge. Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
Author | : Arthur Herman |
Publsiher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780307420954 |
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An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics—contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy; how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution; and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. How the Scots Invented the Modern World reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William “Braveheart” Wallace to James Bond. And no one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots—or the modern West—in the same way again.
Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004314924 |
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Focussing on specific writers and texts, Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in the Great War examines literary responses to the Great War. It underscores the futility of imposing a single perspective on such response and also enquires into the uncertainties of memory.