Alasdair Gray"Since the publication of Lanark in 1981 Alasdair Gray has been a figure of importance in contemporary literature. Now, through attention to mixed genre, counter-historical narrative, and the thematics of memory, this first study of Alasdair Gray's novels shows the coherence of the Scottish writer's varied body of work. Stephen Bernstein refuses to view Gray's work through the vague lens of postmodernism, seeing Gray instead as a writer at home in a variety of literary traditions. Beginning by providing an American audience with backgrounds to Gray's work, this study recounts the chronology of his publications and their reception by an international audience, simultaneously placing his writing in the contexts of Scottish culture and literature."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Seite 26 - ... destroyed, and that which is in one country taken away to another ; and their own bodies shall be made the tomb and the means of transit of all the living bodies which they have slain.
Seite 23 - The Scottish Muse has, however, another mood. Though she has loved reality, sometimes to maudlin affection for the commonplace, she has loved not less the airier pleasure to be found in the confusion of the senses, in the fun of things thrown topsy-turvy, in the horns of elfland and the voices of the mountains.
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| Titel | Alasdair Gray G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Autor/in | Stephen Bernstein |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Bucknell University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0838754147, 9780838754146 |
| Länge | 187 Seiten |
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