Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture (Series)

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Austin Clarke

By Kit Fryatt
Edited by Craig Cairns
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Series: Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture

Examining the work of Irish poet Austin Clarke (1896-1974) in the light of modern critical and theoretical perspectives, Kit Fryatt focuses on key works which reveal how Clarke explored themes on the coherence of the personality, women and repression.

Medbh McGuckian

The Poetics of Exemplarity

By Shane Alcobia-Murphy
Edited by Craig Cairns
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Series: Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture

This is the first monograph wholly devoted to the poetry of Northern Irish Poet Medbh McGuckian and it argues that her work self-reflexively presents a deeply felt belief in the primacy (and efficacy) of poetry in the modern world.

Sorley MacLean

By Peter Mackay
Edited by Craig Cairns
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Series: Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture

Sorley MacLean (1911-1996), the greatest Scottish Gaelic poet of the 20th Century, is examined through in-depth case studies of his individual poems and groups of poems. The book raises questions about translation and cultural ownership in modern Scotland

James Boswell

By Murray Pittock
Subjects: History, Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Series: Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture

This study of James Boswell (1740-95) examines his political and religious sympathies with Jacobitism, Scotland and Catholicism and the way in which he understood his own, and his country’s, uncertain place in the new world of British imperial opportunity

Adam Ferguson

By David Allan
Subjects: History, Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Series: Aberdeen Introductions to Irish and Scottish Culture

This innovative study of Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) sets out to introduce this much-misunderstood figure to a new and wider audience. It explores the deep Scottish and European roots of Ferguson’s thought

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