Ethically Speaking : : Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing / / edited by James McGonigal, Kirsten Stirling.

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: langu...

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Superior document:SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • James MCGONIGAL and Kirsten STIRLING: Introduction
  • John CORBETT: "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland
  • Kirsten STIRLING: "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy
  • Gerard CARRUTHERS: The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln
  • Anne-Kathrin BRAUN-HANSEN: Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry
  • Ingibjörg ÁGÚSTSDÓTTIR: Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins
  • Jordana BROWN: Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar
  • Suhayl SAADI: Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity
  • Edwin MORGAN in Conversation with James MCGONIGAL: Gay Writing in Scotland: An Interview with Edwin Morgan
  • Kirsty WILLIAMS: "A Different Kind of Natural": The Fiction of Jackie Kay and Ali Smith
  • Scott BREWSTER: Beating, Retreating: Violence and Withdrawal in Iain Banks and John Burnside
  • Beth DICKSON: "Pathetic Reminders"? The Idea of Education in Modern Scottish Fiction
  • James MCGONIGAL: Translating God: Negative Theology and Two Scottish Poets
  • Index.