Contemporary Scottish Women Writers / / Aileen Christianson, Alison Lumsden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Christianson, Aileen,; Lumsden, Alison,
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Carol,; Boden, Helen,; Christianson, Aileen,; Dunnigan, Sarah M.,; Lumsden, Alison,; Norquay, Glenda,; Palmer McCulloch, Margery,; Stark, Lynne,; Triesman, Susan C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

This collection of essays, by both new and established critics, provides stimulating readings of many of the Scottish women writers working in Scots and English today. A variety of critical approaches ensures diversity in these essays on fiction, poetry and drama. While in the growing field of Scottish women's writing it is impossible to be all encompassing, these essays cover a wide range from the most established, Muriel Spark, to newer writers such as Laura Hird. It includes new readings of Janice Galloway and A. L. Kennedy and examines the work of poets such as Carol Ann Duffy and Kate Clanchy, dramatists such as Sharman Macdonald and Sue Glover as well as writers, including Jackie Kay, who cross genre boundaries. Exploring the interface between gender and nation as well as the excitement and energy generated by much of this writing, these essays fill a gap in critical response to contemporary Scottish women writers.Contributors to this volume include: Carol Anderson, Barbara Bell, Helen Boden, Sarah M. Dunnigan, Ksenija Horvat, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Glenda Norquay, Lynne Stark, Susan Triesman.Key FeaturesThe first book to present a range of critical responses to contemporary Scottish women writersContemporary - both in terms of the subject matter and the critical/theoretical approachesLooks at a range of genres (fiction, poetry, drama)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Contemporary Scottish Women Poets and Playwrights -- Chapter One Chapter Two Scottish Women's Poetry 1972-1999: -- Chapter Two. Kathleen Jamie's Semiotic of Scotlands -- Chapter Three. Liz Lochhead's Poetry and Drama: Forging Ironies -- Chapter Four. Sharman Macdonald: The Generation of Identity -- Chapter Five. Sue Glover, Rona Munro, Lara Jane Bunting: Echoes and Open Spaces -- Chapter Six. Jackie Kay's Poetry and Prose: Constructing Identity -- Part Two. Contemporary Scottish Women's Prose Fiction -- Chapter Seven. Muriel Spark and Candia McWilliam: Continuities -- Chapter Eight. Agnes Owens's Fiction: Untold Stories -- Chapter Nine. Emma Tennant, Elspeth Barker, Alice Thompson: Gothic Revisited -- Chapter Ten. Janice Galloway's Novels: Fraudulent Mooching -- Chapter Eleven. A. L. Kennedy's Longer Fiction: Articulate Grace -- Chapter Twelve. Scottish Women's Short Stories: 'Repositories of Life Swiftly Apprehended -- Selective Bibliography of Writing by Other Contemporary Scottish Women Writers -- Contributors -- Index