History & Criticism


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  • Cover scan of 17 Poems Of Edwin Morgan
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    17 Poems Of Edwin Morgan: A Commentary - Roderick Watson - Compact Disc
    Professor Roderick Watson of the University of Stirling offers a critical commentary on 17 selected poems by Edwin Morgan, with readings performed by the poet himself.
  • Cover scan of 23 Poems Of Edwin Morgan
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    23 Poems Of Edwin Morgan - Edwin Morgan - Compact Disc
    This collection brings together poems from Edwin Morgan's most productive period of his middle years as a poet, as well as a culling of gems from his most recent Indian summer of his work.
  • Cover scan of 44 Things
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    44 Things: A Year Of Life At Home - Kirsty Gunn - Hardback
    'In 44 Things' Kirsty Gunn celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood. She presents a mosaic of personal reflections written over the course of one year in moments stolen from the vibrant and chaotic world that inspired them.
  • Cover scan of 800 Words
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    800 Words: Poetry And Prose To Mark 800 Years Of Ayr's Royal Charter - Paperback
    This volume contains published work from Ayr Writers' Club members, winners of Ayr Writers' Club competitions, poems by the Makar Press poets, adjudicators of the Ayr 800 poetry competition and a new short story by Des Dillon.
  • Cover scan of Abbotsford And Sir Walter Scott
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    Abbotsford And Sir Walter Scott: The Image And The Influence - Paperback
    This title examines the image of Scott that he projected at and through his house, and looks at the influence of the building not simply in Britain but as far away as Russia.
  • Cover scan of Across The Water
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    Across The Water: Irishness In Modern Scottish Writing - Hamish Whyte - Paperback
    This is an anthology of Irishness in modern Scottish writing including work by writers such as MacLaverty, O'Hagan, McSeveney, Friel, Dillon, O'Rourke, Dolan, Hershaw, Donovan, Burnside, Boyle, McCabe, McGrath and McIlvanney.
  • Cover scan of Alasdair Gray
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    Alasdair Gray - Alasdair Gray - Paperback
    In his earlier years Alasdair Gray was best known in Scotland for his drawings, paintings and occasional plays on radio and television, but since his novel 'Lanark' appeared in 1981, he has been internationally known as a writer of imaginative fiction. This is a short essay on his present state and origins.
  • Cover scan of Alasdair Gray
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    Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography - Rodge Glass - Hardback
    Glass plays Boswell to Gray's Johnson in this humorous yet rigorous biography. Glass has used the inventive techniques of Gray's fiction to bear, mixing a chronological narrative of his subject's life with his own diaries of meeting, getting to know and working with the celebrated artist, writer and campaigner.
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    Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations And A Bibliography - Hardback
    This volume of essays contains a detailed bibliography of Gray's writing and design, illustration of his artwork and critiques from such diverse hands as Professor Philip Hobsbaum, Kevin Williamson, Jonathan Coe and others.
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    Alasdair Gray: The Fiction Of Communion - Gavin Miller - Paperback
    Alasdair Gray's writing is often read as a paradigm of postmodern practice. This study challenges that view by presenting an analysis that is both more conventional and more strongly radical.

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