Download or read book Half Longing Scotland written by Richard Gault and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to embark on a captivating journey through the heart of Scotland in this thought-provoking and enlightening book. Join Richard Gault as he recounts his month-long walk from the southernmost tip of Scotland to Inverness, covering half the length of the country. More than just a travelogue, this book will inspire you to see the familiar in new ways, from the tiniest midge to the most majestic mountain. As Richard traverses the Scottish landscape, he uncovers a rich tapestry of history spanning two thousand years. He reveals Scotland as a land of saints, myths, and monsters; a land of heroes and villains; a land with surprising connections to distant countries. Through his journey, you’ll discover how Scotland played a pivotal role in shaping the modern world, even paving the way (quite literally, in one instance) for progress. By the end of this book, you’ll find yourself filled with a deeper appreciation for the past and a renewed sense of wonder for Scotland’s nature, people, and landscapes. But the journey doesn’t end there. Richard’s experiences will leave you pondering profound questions about the present and future, inviting you to reflect on your own relationship with the world around you. Informative, thought-provoking, and utterly engaging, this book is one you’ll find yourself recommending to friends time and time again. Step into Richard’s shoes and embark on an unforgettable journey through Scotland’s history, beauty, and soul.
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Download or read book Modern Scottish Women Poets written by Dorothy McMillan and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and Introduced by Dorothy McMillan and Michel Byrne. ‘This is a book full of life, energy, skill and unexpected found treasure: a blend of major and minor voices which reveals the formation and verve of Scotland’s modern poetic.’ Ali Smith This invaluable collection traces the work of nearly a hundred writers over one of the most eventful periods in Scottish literary history, and an extensive introduction sets the scene for the growth of women writers from Scotland throughout the whole of the twentieth century. With over 200 poems – from Naomi Mitchison, Carol Ann Duffy, Dilys Rose, Kathleen Jamie, Meg Bateman, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead and many more – this collection celebrates the exceptional power and range of Scottish women poets. ‘It is a crucial anthology, exciting and dynamic. It feels revolutionary.’ Sunday Herald ‘This is an ambitious and brilliant collection that both illuminates the female component of a scene dominated by men and establishes a tradition through them that further illuminates their work. It is . . . a celebration of women whose reputations have grown steadily, as well as an indication of a broader confidence across Scottish writing.’ Libby Brooks, Guardian
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Download or read book Narrative Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women s Writing written by Tudor Balinisteanu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.
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Download or read book The Gazetteer of Scotland With Plates and Maps written by William Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Laird of Norlaw A Scottish Story written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laird of Norlaw is an 1859 fiction by Mrs. Oliphant, and its plot revolves around a large estate owner in Scotland. The excellent use of imagery in the book, the elevated writing style, the incredibly depicted characters, and an absorbing plot contributes to its success. Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works circle domestic realism, historical account, and supernatural stories. Excerpt from The Laird of Norlaw "A low, peaceable, fertile slope, bearing trees to its top-most height, and corn on its shoulders, with a little river running by its base, which manages, after many circuits, to wind its way into Tweed. The house, which is built low upon the hill, is two stories in front, but, owing to the unequal level, only one behind. The garden is all at the back, where the ground is sheltered, but in front, the green, natural surface of the hill descends softly to the water without any thing to break its verdure."
Download or read book The Spell of Scotland written by Keith Clark and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join author Keith Clark on an enchanting journey through the spellbinding landscapes of Scotland in his travelog, 'The Spell of Scotland'. Originally written in the early 20th century, Clark's book offers an intimate and immersive account of his travels to some of Scotland's most breathtaking destinations. From the rolling hills of the Kingdom of Fife to the wild beauty of the Western Isles, readers will be transported to a land of historic castles, picturesque villages, and stunning natural wonders.
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Download or read book Wilson s Historical Traditionary and Imaginative Tales of the Borders and of Scotland with an illustrative glossary by Captain Thomas Brown With a portrait written by John Mackay WILSON and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book When the Clyde Ran Red written by Maggie Craig and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the Singer sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in George Square in 1919, the General Strike of 1926 and on to the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, the men and women of Glasgow, Clydebank and beyond fought for the right to work, the dignity of labour and a fairer society for everyone. They did so in a Glasgow where overcrowded tenements stood no distance from elegant tearooms, art galleries and glittering picture palaces. Red Clydeside was also home to Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Glasgow Style and magnificent exhibitions showcasing the wonders of the age. Political idealism and artistic creativity were matched by industrial endeavour. The Clyde built many of the greatest ships that ever sailed the seas, as locomotives from Glasgow pulled trains on every continent on earth. When the Clyde Ran Red celebrates the determination, achievements and sheer lust for life of the people of Glasgow, Clydebank and Clydeside.
