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245	0	0	_aEthically Speaking : _bVoice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing / _cedited by James McGonigal, Kirsten Stirling.
246	3		_aVoice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2006.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; _v6
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aContributors -- 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.
520			_aAs 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 Spark, William McIlvanney, Ali Smith, James Kelman and others) and the communities described are certainly Scottish, but the issues raised are universal. Questions are asked about the relationship of the individual to others, and therefore, on a larger scale, about the means through which any community is both constructed and sustained: linguistically, spiritually, ethically. If their multiple voices evoke a "zigzag of contradictions", it is at any rate a creative zigzag which discovers, or uncovers, many contradictory aspects of life in modern Scotland that should particularly be brought to light in a re-emergent nation. Ethically speaking, Scottish writers point out the need to attend to many different narratives and retellings, in order that Scots might live more honestly and clear-sightedly with themselves and with the wider world.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _zScottish authors _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _zScottish authors.
700	1		_aMcGonigal, James, _eeditor.
700	1		_aStirling, Kirsten, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tEthically Speaking : Voice and Values in Modern Scottish Writing. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2006 _z9789042020849 _w(OCoLC)76688100
830		0	_aSCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; _v6.
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401203470
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