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Ethically speaking : voice and values in modern Scottish writing / edited by James McGonigal and Kirsten Stirling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 6.Publication details: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781429456456
  • 1429456450
  • 9789401203470
  • 9401203474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethically speaking.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/9411 22
LOC classification:
  • PR8553 .E84 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Contributors; Introduction; "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland; "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy; The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln; Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry; Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins; Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity.
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Summary: As politics and cultures interact within an increasingly diverse Scotland, and differences in values become more evident across generations, the need for clear understanding and cooperation within and between communities becomes a pressing issue. This relates both to local and larger concerns: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Sp.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributors; Introduction; "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland; "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy; The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln; Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry; Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins; Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity.

As politics and cultures interact within an increasingly diverse Scotland, and differences in values become more evident across generations, the need for clear understanding and cooperation within and between communities becomes a pressing issue. This relates both to local and larger concerns: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Sp.

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