Association for Scottish Literary Studies
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Cizojazyčná literatura, Contemporary Fiction, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
New Writing Scotland is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. Every year we publish the very best from emerging and established writers, and list many of the leading literary lights…328 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
Based on the historical record of Bessie Dunlop’s ‘confession’ to witchcraft in sixteenth-century Scotland, Bessie Dunlop, the Witch o Dalry is a three-act play for schools suitable for BGE and S3–S4 students. The language of the play…295 Kč KoupitChildren and Teens, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy, Middle Grade
At the time of its release in 1983, Local Hero, starring Burt Lancaster and Fulton MacKay, was the most expensive film ever to be made in Scotland. It remains as important and influential today as…229 Kč KoupitBiography, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
“I try to write something every day even though I am not writing poetry, just to get myself in touch with language.â€â€”Edwin MorganEdwin Morgan (1920–2010) is one of the giants of modern literature. Scotland’s national…823 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Ena Lamont Stewart (1912-2006) had a keen sense of the appalling poverty and deprivation suffered by the residents of Glasgow''s slum tenements in the first half of the twentieth century. A member of the radical…229 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
Robin Jenkins''s greatest novel is a powerful examination of good and evil, set against the backdrop of a Scottish estate during World War II. With its themes of class-conflict, war, evil and envy, this is…229 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy
These five plays address cultural and political mythmaking, both modern and historical, in Scotland and internationally. With their fascinatingly fresh approaches to dramatic possibilities and dynamic theatricality, they do so with both shocking directness and…658 Kč KoupitBiography, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
This volume of fourteen essays offers fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918–2006), one of Scotland’s most internationally celebrated writers. Known for her cultural cosmopolitanism and sharp wit, Spark was prolific…658 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Are novelists from Scotland, even internationally influential ones like Walter Scott or Muriel Spark, merely contributors to a wider English literature, or is there a separate and specific tradition of the Scottish novel that gives…823 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Literature and Linguistics, Nonfiction
Iain Crichton Smith was one of the foremost poets of the 20th century, writing in English and Gaelic. His poetry often concerns itself with unsentimental views of life in the Western Highlands and Islands, and…229 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, Drama and Poetry, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Along with his contemporaries Edwin Morgan and Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean is recognised as one of the most important Scottish poets of the twentieth century. Born at Oscaig on the island of Raasay in 1911,…229 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in further education. This title examines ten short…229 Kč KoupitChildren and Teens, Children's Books, Cizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Fiction and Literature, Knihy
Iain Banks is one of the most inventive writers in the UK today, producing an extraordinary range of work, from family sagas set in present-day Scotland to science fiction spanning vast gulfs of space and…229 Kč KoupitCizojazyčná literatura, English literature, Knihy, Nonfiction
William McIlvanney''s fiction is drawn from the lives and circumstances of the people of the West of Scotland, and is characterised by detailed observation, an accurate ear for language, wit and thoughtful reflection on living…229 Kč Koupit
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