Identities And Culture In Modern Scottish Literature

This is an original exploration of the way in which national and cultural identities are made, remade and changed in the melting pot of a culture's imaginative literature.Concentrating primarily on modern Scottish literature (but also drawing on some literature of the past), literary theory and critical analysis merge with literary and cultural history to offer a series of original insights to contemporary Scottish cultural identity.Divided into four sections - "Voices", "Places", "Other Selves" and "Subjects" - each explores a different aspect of literary, cultural and psychological identity. Professor Watson has selected the authors which best represent this making of identity in Scottish literature, including: Burns; Crichton Smith; Galloway; Goodsir Smith; Grassic Gibbon; Hogg; Jenkins; Kelman; Kennedy; Legge; Lochhead; MacCaig; McIlvanney; Scott; Shepherd; Warner; and Welsh.The book is aimed at the general reader interested in Scottish culture as well as students studying Scottish literature - the key authors on such courses are covered. New readings of well-studied texts should make for a provocative and stimulating book.