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Scotland in theory : reflections on culture & literature / edited by Eleanor Bell & Gavin Miller.

Title
Scotland in theory : reflections on culture & literature / edited by Eleanor Bell & Gavin Miller.
Publication
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Bell, Eleanor, 1973-
  • Miller, Gavin, 1971-
Description
287 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
"The collection will be of interest to teachers and students of Scottish and English literature, literary theory, cultural and media analysis, and the history of ideas."--Jacket
Series Statement
Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Scottish literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Taalkunde
  • Letterkunde
  • Cultuur
  • Scotland > In literature > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Conference proceedings.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Gavin Miller and Eleanor Bell -- Break-up: Twenty-five years on / Tom Nairn -- Nairn's nationalisms / Ronald Turnbull -- The case of the postmodernist's sore thumb, or the moral sentiments of John Rebus / Christopher Harvie -- Phrasing Scotland and the postmodern / A.J.P. Thomson -- Postmodernism, nationalism and the question of tradition / Eleanor Bell -- "Almost afraid to know itself": Macbeth and cinematic Scotland / Willy Maley and Sarah Neely -- Dislocating the nation: political devolution and cultural identity on stage and screen / Ellen-Raïssa Jackson -- Nervous men, mobile nation: masculinity and psychopathology in Irvine Welsh's Filth and Glue / Berthold Schoene -- Queer readings, gay texts: from Redgauntlet to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie / Christopher Whyte -- The muted Scotswoman and Oliphant's Kirsteen / Anne McManus Scriven -- Scottish fighting men: big and wee / Kasia Boddy -- "Persuade without convincing ... represent without reasoning": the inferiorist mythology of the Scots language / Gavin Miller -- Philosophy, tradition, nation / Laurence Nicoll -- The existence of Scotland / Thomas Docherty -- Beyond reason- Hume, Seth, Macmurray and Scotland's postmodernity / Cairns Craig.
ISBN
  • 9042010282 (pbk.)
  • 9789042010284 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 54081421
  • SCSB-10582125
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Harvard Library