Ethically speaking : voice and values in modern Scottish writing /
edited by James McGonigal and Kirsten Stirling.
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Amsterdam : : Rodopi, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (251 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Contributors; Introduction; ""Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes"": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland; ""Lying is good like this"": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy; The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln; Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry; Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins; Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity. - Gay Writing in Scotland: An Interview with Edwin Morgan""A Different Kind of Natural"": The Fiction of Jackie Kay and Ali Smith; Beating, Retreating: Violence and Withdrawal in Iain Banks and John Burnside; ""Pathetic Reminders""? The Idea of Education in Modern Scottish Fiction; Translating God: Negative Theology and Two Scottish Poets; Index. - As politics and cultures interact within an increasingly diverse Scotland, and differences in values become more evident across generations, the need for clear understanding and cooperation within and between communities becomes a pressing issue. This relates both to local and larger concerns: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Sp
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| ISBN | 1-4294-5645-0. - 94-012-0347-4
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