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Dà Thaobh A' Bhealaich
This is a unique, fully bilingual poetic dialogue between two poets who literally and figuratively inhabit two sides of a mountain pass. From the east side of the Trotternish Ridge on Skye comes the poetry of native prize-winning Gaelic poet Maoilios Caimbeul (Myles Campbell). On the west side of the ridge lives Mark O. Goodwin, English and an 'incomer' to Skye. The poems form a conversation between the two men and between their two cultural backgrounds - a conversation that not only illuminates many of the issues facing Scotland in the 21st century, but many cross-cultural divides around the globe. The project was completed in collaboration with critically acclaimed artist Eoghann MacColla, whose cover artwork and pencil drawings form an integral part of the work.
The New Testament as True Fiction
An original, provocative and thoughtful series of readings of the New Testament and extra-biblical texts. Making forays into literary criticism, philosophy, and theology, Templeton draws upon a rich diversity of sources. He proposes that we read the New Testament not as history (true or false) - in what is still the dominant hermeneutic - but rather as "true fiction".
Uneasy Subjects
Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first comprehensive study of this topic which offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex interplay between Celticity, Gaeldom, Scottish and British national identity, and international colonial and postcolonial discourse. It situates post/colonial elements in Gaelic poetry within a wider context, showing how they intersect with socio-historical and political issues, anglophone ...
Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918)
In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.
Sruth Na Maoile
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Prizing Scottish Literature
This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today.
The Poetry of the Scots
A unique bibliographical guide and a comprehensive introduction to Scottish poetry from the very earliest times to the present day. It gives a chronological listing of the standard editions of all the major and many of the minor Scottish poets, supplemented by Glen's informative and energetic commentaries.
Air a' charbad fo thalamh
Gorman's world incorporates the living landscapes around the Sound of Sleat as viewed through his own observant eye and restless imagination. Gorman deals with love, and love lost, mountains and death, as well as turning his hand to translations of Korean Zen and Gaelic concrete poetry. This book is a bilingual Gaelic/English edition, with translations by Meg Bateman, Myles M. Campbell, Ian Crichton Smith, Sheena Blackhall, Iain S. MacPherson, J. Derrick McClure, Kevin MacNeil, Donald S. Murray, William Neill and the author.
New Writing Scotland
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