Edinburgh Companion To Muriel Spark
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Edinburgh Companion To Muriel Spark
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Author : Michael Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-06
Edinburgh Companion To Muriel Spark written by Michael Gardiner and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies.
Muriel Spark
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Author : Martin Stannard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-08-13
Muriel Spark written by Martin Stannard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The long-awaited biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century - 'a wonderful blend of scholarly fact and juicy storytelling' (Mail on Sunday). Muriel Spark ended was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Hers is a Cinderella story, the first thirty-nine years of which she presented in her autobiography, Curriculum Vitae (1992), politely blurring the intensity of her darker moments: her relations with her brother, mother, son, husband; a terrifying period of hallucinations and subsequent depression; and the disastrously misplaced love she had felt for two men she had wanted to marry, Howard Sergeant and Derek Stanford. Aged nineteen, Spark left Scotland to marry in Southern Rhodesia, escaping back to Britain on a troopship in 1944 after her divorce. Her son returned in 1945 to be brought up by her parents in Edinburgh while she established herself as a poet and critic in London. After becoming a Roman Catholic in 1954, she began a novel, The Comforters, and with Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Bachelors rose rapidly into the literary stratosphere. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), with its adaptation into a successful stage-play and film, marked her full translation into international celebrity and from that point she went to live first in New York, then Rome, and finally Tuscany where for over thirty years, until her death in 2006, she shared a house with her companion, the artist Penelope Jardine.
Scottish Gothic
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Author : Carol Margaret Davison
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-08
Scottish Gothic written by Carol Margaret Davison and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Written 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.
Book Lovers Edinburgh
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Author : Allan Foster
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-05-16
Book Lovers Edinburgh written by Allan Foster and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-16 with categories.
Part guidebook, part readers' companion, Book Lovers' Edinburgh is an exploration of a great city that has been celebrated for its literature since ancient times. It opens up a landscape that will lead you through the sites and haunts of Edinburgh's literary legends: Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Burns, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Alexander McCall Smith, Ian Rankin, J.K. Rowling and others. A combination of a good read and a literary treasure hunt, it unearths the people and places - many of them lost in time - that turned Edinburgh into one of the world's greatest cities of literature.
Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott
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Author : Fiona Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-25
Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott written by Fiona Robertson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Edinburgh Companion To Modern Jewish Fiction
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Author : David Brauner
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-07
Edinburgh Companion To Modern Jewish Fiction written by David Brauner and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-07 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.
Edinburgh Companion To James Hogg
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Author : Ian Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-11
Edinburgh Companion To James Hogg written by Ian Duncan and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
James Hogg (1770-1835) is increasingly recognised as a major Scottish author and one of the most original figures in European Romanticism. 16 essays written by international experts on Hogg draw on recent breakthroughs in research to illuminate the contexts and debates that helped to shape his writings. The book provides an indispensable guide to Hogg's life and worlds, his publishing history, reception and reputation, his treatments of politics, religion, nationality, social class, sexuality and gender, and the diverse literary forms - ballads, songs, poems, drama, short stories, novels, periodicals - in which he wrote.
Edinburgh Companion To Liz Lochhead
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Author : Anne Varty
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Edinburgh Companion To Liz Lochhead written by Anne Varty and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the significance of Liz Lochhead's work for the twenty-first century.The first contemporary critical investigation since Liz Lochhead's appointment as Scotland's second Scots Makar, this Companion examines her poetry, theatre, visual and performing arts, and broadcast media. It also discusses her theatre for children and young people, her translations for the stage as well as translations of her texts into foreign languages and cultures.Several poets offer commentaries on the influence of Liz Lochhead on their own practice while academic critics from America, Europe, England and Scotland offer new critical readings inspired by feminism, post-colonialism and cultural history. The volume addresses all of Lochhead's major outputs, from new appraisal of early work such as Dreaming Frankenstein and Blood and Ice to evaluations of her more recent works and collections such as The Colour of Black and White and Perfect Days.
Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott
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Author : Fiona Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-09-25
Edinburgh Companion To Sir Walter Scott written by Fiona Robertson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is widely recognised as one of the central and defining figures in Scottish literature and in European and American Romanticism. Fabled in his own lifetime as 'the Wizard of the North' and as the (long-anonymous) 'Author of Waverley', he played a unique role in the dissemination of an idea of Scottish culture and history. From his early work as a collector and editor of traditional ballads to the widespread popularity and fame of his poetry and novels, and to his important writings on history, economics, folklore, and literature, Scott refashioned the literary culture of his day and continues to shape our own.The Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott, the first collection of its kind devoted to his work, draws on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years. Chapters written by leading international scholars provide an indispensable guide to his work in different genres and reflect the topics and concerns which are most exciting in Scott scholarship today, including his place in literary and popular culture, his experimentation and originality, his relationship to Romanticism, and the revaluation of lesser-known works.
Edinburgh Companion To Scottish Women S Writing
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Author : Glenda Norquay
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-20
Edinburgh Companion To Scottish Women S Writing written by Glenda Norquay and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Recognises the richness of women's contribution to Scottish literature. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A.L. Kennedy in new contexts and discusses the writing of critically neglected figures such as Sileas na Ceapaich, Mary Queen of Scots, Anne Grant, Janet Hamilton, Isabella Bird, F. Marion McNeill and Denise Mina. There are chapters on women in Gaelic culture, women's relationship to oral traditions and to key literary periods, women's engagements with nationalism, with space, with genre fiction and with the activity of reading.