
A Scottish National Canon?
Processes of Literary Canon Formation in Scotland
Stefanie Preuss(Author)
Universitätsverlag Winter
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2012
Book
Hardback
381 pages
978-3-8253-6013-9 (ISBN)
Description
The "Best Scottish Book of All Time" is Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel 'Sunset Song'. This, at least, was the result of a public vote organised in 2005. But what is a Scottish book? And who decides which books are considered canonical? Until the 1960s, the apprehension of Scottish literature as merely a lesser sub-branch of English literature was a common notion. Since then, however, Scottish literature, as well as academic scholarship on Scottish writing, has been systematically promoted by means of grants, bursaries or literary awards. This revival was the result of a concerted policy of canonisation by literary institutions, which had its beginning in the eighteenth century. Such strategies of Scottish canon formation since the Union of Parliaments are the concern of the present study. For the first time, it identifies the different agents involved in Scottish canon formation and analyses how canon formation in Scotland is related to nationalist identity politics.
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Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2010
Universität Bern
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
10 Abbildungen
10 Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
777 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8253-6013-9 (9783825360139)
Schweitzer Classification