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Intending Scotland

Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment

By: Cairns Craig

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Intending Scotland

Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment

By: Cairns Craig

A major reconsideration of our understanding of the development of Scottish culture from the Enlightenment to the present day.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748679332

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9780748679331

Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

Richest to the Richest

By: Cairns Prof. Craig

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Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

Richest to the Richest

By: Cairns Prof. Craig

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot and Pound in the period during and after the First World War, and the reactionary politics with which they were associated in the 1920s and 1930s. Concentrating on their writings in the period up to the 1930s, this study, first published in 1982, helps to resolve the paradox and also provides a much needed reappraisal of the factors influencing their poetic and political development. The work of these poets has usually been seen as deriving from the tradition of continental symbolist poetics. Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry will be of interest to students of literature.

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298

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Routledge

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131733082X

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9781317330820

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

By: Cairns Craig,Randall Stevens

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Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

By: Cairns Craig,Randall Stevens

Edited and introduced by Cairns Craig and Randall Stevenson. Ever since the major revival of dramatic writing and production in the 1970s, the style and the subject matter of Scottish writing for stage and screen has been a continuing influence on our contemporary culture, exciting, offending and challenging audiences in equal measure. Yet modern Scottish drama has a history of controversy, conflict and entertainment going back to the 1920s, notable at every turn for the vigour of its language and its direct confrontation with telling issues. The plays in this anthology offer a unique chance to grasp the different topics and also the recurrent themes of Scottish drama in the twentieth century. Gathered together in a single omnibus volume, there is the poetic eeriness of Barrie and the political commitment of Joe Corrie and Sue Glover; there is the Brechtian debate of Bridie and the verbal brilliance of John Byrne and Liz Lochhead; there is working-class experience and feminist insight; broad Scots and existential anxiety; street realism and a meeting with the devil; social injustice and raucous humour; historical comedy and tragic loss. Here is both the breadth and the continuity of the modern Scottish tradition in a single volume.

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Canongate Books

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1847674747

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9781847674746

Wealth of the Nation

Scotland, Culture and Independence

By: Cairns Craig

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Wealth of the Nation

Scotland, Culture and Independence

By: Cairns Craig

Reveals Britain's secret counter-subversive policies and security measures implemented in the post-war Middle East.

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306

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474435599

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9781474435598

Associationism and the Literary Imagination

From the Phantasmal Chaos

By: Craig Cairns Craig

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Associationism and the Literary Imagination

From the Phantasmal Chaos

By: Craig Cairns Craig

Associationism and the Literary Imagination traces the influence of empirical philosophy and associationist psychology on theories of literary creativity and on the experience of reading literature. It runs from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature in 1739 to the works of major literary critics of the twentieth century, such as I.A. Richards, W.K. Wimsatt and Northrop Frye. Cairns Craig explores the ways in which associationist conceptions of literature gave rise to some of the key transformations in British writing between the romantic and modernist periods. In particular, he analyses the ways in which authors' conceptions of the form of their readers' aesthetic experience led to radical developments in literary style, from the fragmentary narrative of Sterne's Tristram Shandy in 1760 to Virginia Woolf's experiments in the rendering of characters' consciousness in the 1920s; and from Wordsworth's poetic use of autobiography to J.G. Frazer's exploration of a mythic unconscious in The Golden Bough. Detailed analyses are offered of the ways in which a wide variety of major British writers, including Scott, Lady Morgan, Dickens, Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce and Woolf developed their literary techniques on the basis of associationist conceptions of the mind, and of how modern literary criticism - from Arthur Symons to Roland Barthes - is founded on associationist principles. Associationism and the Literary Imagination relocates the traditions of British writing since the eighteenth century within the neglected context of its native empirical philosophy, and reveals how many of the issues assumed to be products of 'postmodern' or 'deconstructive' theory have long been foregrounded and debated within the traditions of British empiricism. This is a work which provides a radical new perspective on the history of literature in Britain and Ireland and challenges many of the assumptions of contemporary theoretical debate about the

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748628169

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9780748628162

Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

By: Craig Cairns Craig

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Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

By: Craig Cairns Craig

Contextualises Muriel Spark's writings in the tradition of Christian existentialism and its insistence on 'being towards death'This book proposes that Christian existentialism and, in particular, the work of Sren Kierkegaard, helped shape Spark's religious commitments and her artistic innovations. Because of the prominence, after the Second World War, of the atheistic existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre, it is often forgotten that existentialism was originally a Christian philosophy, shaped by followers of Kierkegaard such as Karl Jaspers and Gabriel Marcel. Craig traces in Spark's writings both the influence of Kierkegaard and of Spark's resistance to Sartre's co-option of existentialism to an atheistic agenda. Kierkegaard's analysis of the nature of the 'aesthetic' as a false mode of existence that has to be transcended by the ethical and then by the religious provides a fundamental structure for Spark's satirical analyses of the failings of the modern world.Key FeaturesProvides detailed analyses of a substantial proportion of Spark's novelsExplains the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Sartre designed for readers without specialist philosophical knowledgeRe-reads major Spark works, such as The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hothouse by the East River, Symposium, The Only ProblemAnalyses the ways in which Spark situates her plots within the major historical conflicts and social transformations of the twentieth century

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474447236

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9781474447232

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

By: Cairns Craig,Randall Stevens

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Irish London

Middle-class Migration in the Global Eighteenth Century

By: Craig Bailey

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Irish London

Middle-class Migration in the Global Eighteenth Century

By: Craig Bailey

This text uses case studies of law students, lawyers and merchants to explore overlooked dimensions of Irish migration the middle class, community and the social geography of London in the eighteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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1846318815

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9781846318818

Book's by Craig Cairns Craig

Intending Scotland

Intending Scotland

Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

Wealth of the Nation

Wealth of the Nation

Associationism and the Literary Imagination

Associationism and the Literary Imagination

Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

Muriel Spark, Existentialism and The Art of Death

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

Twentieth Century Scottish Drama

Irish London

Irish London

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