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Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

The Masks of the Modern Nation

By: A. Riach

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Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

The Masks of the Modern Nation

By: A. Riach

This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, the modern Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and more recent cultural and literary phenomena. The central theme of literature and popular 'representation' recontextualises literary analysis in a broader, multi-faceted picture involving all the arts and the changing sense of what 'the popular' might be in a modern nation. New technologies alter forms of cultural production and the book charts a way through these forms, from oral poetry and song to the novel, and includes studies of paintings, classical music, socialist drama, TV, film and comic books. The international context for mass media cultural production is examined as the story of the intrinsic curiosity of the imagination and the intensely local aspect of Scotland's cultural self-representation unfolds.

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0230554962

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Arts and the Nation

A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

By: Alan Riach,Alexander Moffatt,John Purser

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A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

By: Alan Riach,Alexander Moffatt,John Purser

A panorama of ideas about nationality and culture, Arts and the Nation arose from the conviction that Scotland can never be really democratic until it gives the arts the priority of place and attention they demand. This book is a fresh take on subjects new and old, with multifaceted ideas of nationality and culture. Those featured include: William Dunbar, Duncan Ban MacIntyre and Elizabeth Melville are read alongside international authors such as Wole Soyinka and Edward Dorn. J.D. Fergusson, Joan Eardley and John Bellany are considered with American Alice Neel and the art of the ancient Celts. Composers like John Blackwood McEwen, Cecil Coles and Helen Hopekirk are introduced, amongst discussions of education, politics, social priorities, the mass media and different genres of writing. What was the real reason Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated his dark masterpiece to his cousin Katharine de Mattos? Why was Katharine's own tale of duality published under a pseudonym? When Fanny Stevenson 'stole' another story idea from Katharine, why did RLS explode with Hydelike rage at the cousin for whom he had once been 'the one that loves you – Jekyll, and not Hyde'? Featuring the full text of Katharine's tale of duality, Fanny's stolen story and another tale revealing Katharine's grief at losing her cousin's love forever, Mrs Jekyll & Cousin Hyde sheds new light on one of the greatest Victorian authors.

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Luath Press Ltd

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1912387166

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9781912387168

Arts of Resistance

By: Alexander Moffat,Alan Riach,Linda Macdonald-Lewis

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Arts of Resistance

By: Alexander Moffat,Alan Riach,Linda Macdonald-Lewis

Arts of Resistance is an original exploration that extends beyond the arts into the context of politics and political change. In three wide-ranging exchanges prompted by American blues singer Linda MacDonald-Lewis, artist Alexander Moffat and poet Alan Riach discuss cultural, political and artistic movements, the role of the artist in society and the effect of environment on artists from all disciplines. Arts of Resistance examines the lives and work of leading figures from Scotland's arts world in the twentieth century, concentrating on poets and artists but also including writers, musicians and architectural visionaries such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Patrick Geddes. Poets studied include Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith, Edwin Morgan and Liz Lochhead; artists include William McTaggart, William Johnstone and the Scottish Colourists. The investigation into the connection between the arts and political culture includes historical issues, from British imperialism to a devolved Scotland. Finally, the contribution to poetry and art of each major Scottish city is discussed: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee. Highly illustrated with paintings and poems, Arts of Resistance is a beautifully produced book providing facts and controversial opinions.

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Arts and the Nation

A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

By: Alan Riach,Alexander Moffatt,John Purser

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A critical re-examination of Scottish Literature, Painting, Music and Culture

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Scottish Literature

An Introduction

By: Alan Riach

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Scottish Literature

An Introduction

By: Alan Riach

What do we mean by 'Scottish literature'? Why does it matter? How do we engage with it? Bringing infectious enthusiasm and a lifetime's experience to bear on this multi-faceted literary nation, Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, sets out to guide you through the varied and ever-evolving landscape of Scottish literature. A comprehensive and extensive work designed not only for scholars but also for the generally curious, Scottish Literature: an introduction tells the tale of Scotland's many voices across the ages, from Celtic pre-history to modern mass media. Forsaking critical jargon, Riach journeys chronologically through individual works and writers, both the famed and the forgotten, alongside broad overviews of cultural contexts which connect texts to their own times. Expanding the restrictive canon of days gone by, Riach also sets down a new core body of 'Scottish Literature': key writers and works in English, Scots, and Gaelic. Ranging across time and genre, Scottish Literature: an introduction invites you to hear Scotland through her own words.

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1804250368

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Arts of Resistance

By: Alexander Moffat,Alan Riach,Linda Macdonald-Lewis

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By: Alexander Moffat,Alan Riach,Linda Macdonald-Lewis

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

By: Riach Alan Riach

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

By: Riach Alan Riach

A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474471994

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Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

By: Riach Alan Riach

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A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry

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Edinburgh University Press

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Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

The Masks of the Modern Nation

By: A. Riach

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Selected Poetry

By: Hugh MacDiarmid,Alan Riach

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Selected Poetry

By: Hugh MacDiarmid,Alan Riach

Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle.

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New Directions Publishing

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0811212483

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9780811212489

Selected Poetry

By: Hugh MacDiarmid,Alan Riach

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It's How You Play the Game

By: Steve Riach

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It's How You Play the Game

By: Steve Riach

Inspirational quotes and stories from golf's top pros teach lessons about faith, courage and determination. Learn how to avoid and overcome life's sand traps. Forward by legendary broadcaster Pat Summerall.

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1562928937

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Tam O'Shanter

A Tale

By: Robert Burns

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Tam O'Shanter

A Tale

By: Robert Burns

- Contents:In pursuit of Alexander Goudie / Lachlan Goudie -- The of Burns' Tam O'Shanter / Edward J. Cowan -- The nightriders: Tam O'Shanter, Robert Burns and Alexander Goudie / Alan Riach -- Tam O'Shanter / Robert Burns -- The paintings / Alexander Goudie.

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Birlinn Limited

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1780270364

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The Captain's Log

From Conway and Clan Line to Trinity House

By: James Alexander Riach,Glen Murray

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The Captain's Log

From Conway and Clan Line to Trinity House

By: James Alexander Riach,Glen Murray

James Alexander Riach was born in Dingwall, in the north of Scotland, in 1928 and grew up in the Western Isles, in Tobermory, Mull, and in Stornoway, on Lewis. He left to train as a marine cadet on HMS Conway, North Wales, from 1944-45, then went to sea as an officer with the Clan Line in the Merchant Navy. In 1961 he joined the Trinity House Pilots and worked in the pilotage service, taking ships out from the Terrace Pier at Gravesend and down the London River into the Channel and sometimes over to Europe. This is an account of his early life and training, a collection of his stories and reminiscences, from fifty years of seafaring and piloting experience. It includes the background to the Trinity House Pilots, from their inception in 1514 to their disbanding in 1988. He piloted supertankers, including the 214,085-ton Ardshiel in 1977 and the 233,931-ton World Premier in 1978, the HMS Onslaught submarine and many other vessels of various shapes and sizes. Occasionally James took one-off voyages as a pilot or navigator, most memorably on the tall sailing ship the Winston Churchill in 1981, on the Aztec Lady in a yacht race to La Coruna in 1990 and the Decca Surveyor in the North Sea oil fields in 1974. The Introduction is by the yacht-skipper and editor of Scottish Sea Stories, Glen Murray. The Afterword by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, includes a number of poems inspired by his father's stories.

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Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

Arts and the Nation

Arts and the Nation

Arts of Resistance

Arts of Resistance

Arts and the Nation

Arts and the Nation

Scottish Literature

Scottish Literature

Arts of Resistance

Arts of Resistance

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry

Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

Selected Poetry

It's How You Play the Game

It's How You Play the Game

Tam O'Shanter

Tam O'Shanter

The Captain's Log

The Captain's Log

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