TY - BOOK AU - McGonigal,James AU - Stirling,Kirsten TI - Ethically speaking: voice and values in modern Scottish writing T2 - Scottish cultural review of language and literature SN - 9781429456456 AV - PR8553 .E84 2006eb U1 - 820.9/9411 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - English literature KW - Scottish authors KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Auteurs écossais KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=185965 ER -