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Title Ethically speaking : voice and values in modern Scottish writing / edited by James McGonigal and Kirsten Stirling.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 6
Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; v. 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contributors; Introduction; "Nae mair pussyfuttin. Ah'm aff, Theramenes": Demotic Neoclassical Drama in Contemporary Scotland; "Lying is good like this": The Collaborative Lie in the Early Fiction of A.L. Kennedy; The Relativity of Experience in William McIlvanney's The Kiln; Resignifying HiStories: The Subversive Potential of Revision in Liz Lochhead's Poetry; Ethics of War in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins; Finding Her Religion: The Search for Spiritual Satisfaction in Alan Warner's Morvern Callar; Songs of the Village Idiot: Ethnicity, Writing and Identity.
Summary 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: language, violence, morality, gender and sexuality, education, ethnicity, truth and lies. The chapters gathered here focus on significant Scottish writers of the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries, (Edwin Morgan, A.L. Kennedy, Liz Lochhead, John Burnside, Jackie Kay, Robin Jenkins, Muriel Sp.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject English literature -- Scottish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Scottish authors.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author McGonigal, James.
Stirling, Kirsten.
Other Form: Print version: Ethically speaking. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006 9042020849 9789042020849 (OCoLC)76688100
ISBN 9781429456456 (electronic book)
1429456450 (electronic book)
9789401203470
9401203474
9042020849
9789042020849