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  • Modern Scottish Painting

    by J D Fergusson ...
    In 1939, Scottish artist and sculptor J.D. Fergusson was commissioned to write a fully illustrated book on modern Scottish painting. The Second World War made this difficult and the first edition of Modern Scottish Painting was published in 1943 without illustrations. This new edition – edited, introduced and annotated by Alexander Moffat and Alan Riach – finally brings Fergusson's project to ... Read more

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  • Scottish Literature

    An Introduction

    by Alan Riach ...
    What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archipelago

    A Reader

    by Andrew McNellie, Norman Ackroyd, John Brannigan, Moya Cannon, Mark Cocker, Peter Davidson, Roger Deakin, Tim Dee, David Douglas, Douglas Dunn, Terry Eagleton, John Eifion Jones, John Elder, Rose Ferraby, Barbara Greg, Ivor Gurney, Alexandra Harris, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Sally Huband, Roger Hutchinson, Mick Imlah, Kathleen Jamie, John Kerrigan, Philip Lancaster, David Lea, Angela Leighton, Gwyneth Lewis, Michael Longley, James Macdonald Lockhart, Robert Macfarlane, Angus Macmillan, Derek Mahon, Gail McNeillie, Sinéad Morrisey, Richard Murphy, Les Murray, Deirdre Ní Chonghaile, Alice Oswald, Bernard O'Donoghue, Jem Poster, Angharad Price, John Purser, Alan Riach, Tim Robinson, Katherine Rundell, Richard Sharland, Jos Smith, Mary Wellesley ...
    Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

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  • Arts of Resistance

    by Alexander Moffat, Alan Riach, Linda Macdonald-Lewis ...
    Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda MacDonald-Lewis, artist Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach discuss cultural, political and artistic movements, the role of the artist in society and the effect of environment on artists from all ... Read more

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  • Arts and the Nation

    A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

    by Alan Riach, Alexander Moffatt, John Purser ...
    A panorama of ideas about nationality and culture, Arts and the Nation arose from the conviction that Scotland can never be really democratic until it gives the arts the priority of place and attention they demand. This book is a fresh take on subjects new and old, with multifaceted ideas of nationality and culture. Those featured include:William Dunbar, Duncan Ban MacIntyre and Elizabeth Melville ... Read more

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  • Scotland as Science Fiction

    by Caroline McCracken-Flesher, John Corbett, Ian Duncan, John Garrison, Lisa Harrison, J Derrick McClure, Gavin Miller, Alison Phipps, Alan Riach, Carla Sassi, Cairns Craig, Matthew Wickman ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    Out of the mainstream but ahead of the tide, that is Scottish Science Fiction. Science Fiction emphasizes “progress” through technology, advanced mental states, or future times. How does Scotland, often considered a land of the past, lead in Science Fiction? “Left behind” by international politics, Scots have cultivated alternate places and different times as sites of identity so that Scotland can ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Scott-land

    The Man Who Invented a Nation

    by Stuart Kelly ...
    His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the bizarre monument in Edinburgh's city centre. Scott-land presumes that the reader will have only a hazy awareness of Sir Walter Scott, and, although Stuart Kelly will offer insights into Scott's works and biography, this is emphatically not a conventional literary biography, nor is it a critical study. Partly a surreptitious ... Read more

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  • Robert Burns in Global Culture

    by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...
    Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The New Elizabethan Age

    Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II

    Edited by Irene Morra, Rob Gossedge ...
    In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Scotland's Books

    A History of Scottish Literature

    by Robert Crawford ...
    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Mainstream Companion to Scottish Literature is the most comprehensive reference guide to Scotland's literature, covering a period from the earliest times to the early 1990s. It includes over 600 essays on the lives and works of the principal poets, novelists, dramatists critics and men and women of letters who have written in English, Scots or Gaelic. Thus, as well as such major writers as ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • On Seamus Heaney

    by Roy Foster ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD