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Kenneth White
Explores the life of one of Scotland's most important poet-thinkers as told by himself.
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Brings together three of Kenneth White's travel books to provide an accessible introduction to the project of 'geopoetics' and to White's environmental aesthetics.
Cairns Craig
This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most…
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Concentrating on the writings of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, provides a much…
The Wealth of the Nation’ explores how Scotland has continued to assert its distinctive cultural difference despite the three-hundred-year union with England and the modern forces of globalisation.
Muriel Spark’s oeuvre is contextualised in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on ‘being towards death’.
This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Soren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark’s religious commitments and her artistic innovations.
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Prof. Cairns Craig
In the last quarter century, Scottish novelists from Muriel Spark, Alasdair Gray and Allan Massie to James Kelman, Janice Galloway, A.L. Kennedy and Irvine Welsh have achieved significant international success.
A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.
J.G. Frazer
Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols…
These three books reflect the beginnings of one of the most radical and exhilarating figures in modern literature.
Three collections of essays whose aim is to express the cartography and the experience of a live, open world.
Craig Cairns
Provides an account of the philosophical and psychological theories in the British empiricist tradition that provoked some of the most radical changes in literary form between the eighteenth and the…
Romantic Empiricism is a timely collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, which represents a paradigm shift for the study of British Romanticism. The volume challenges the received view…
