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George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Linden Bicket
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Description for George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Hardback. Series: Scottish Religious Cultures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DQ; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus ... Read more
This lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. By focusing on one of the best known of Scotland's literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown's writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. The book provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown's corpus ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Scottish Religious Cultures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474411653
SKU
V9781474411653
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About Linden Bicket
Linden Bicket is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Divinity in New College, at the University of Edinburgh.
Reviews for George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination
Bicket mounts a persuasive, well-researched, and elegant argument for the centrality of Brown's faith to his writing. 'George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination' will undoubtedly reshape many readers' perceptions of Brown, and is a milestone in the critical reception of his work. Just as importantly, however, it suggests new directions for the study of modern Scottish literature... it ... Read more