The Vintage Book Of Contemporary Scottish Fiction

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction written by Peter Kravitz and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-12-07 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology features such stories as James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines, on the life of a bus conductor in Glasgow, Alison Fell's There's Tradition for You, an art model's rant, and Duncan McLean's Hours of Darkness, the impact on a community of the arrival of a stranger.

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297513787
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction written by Peter Kravitz and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780330335515
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction written by Peter Kravitz and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 1998 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Usually in diaspora, the intelligence of the Scots is recognized worldwide. These stories show that this capacity is now flourishing at home’ Ross Leckie, The Times ‘There could be not be a more heartening showcase of talent. A showcase, incidentally, that will remind those in need of it that in the past few decades Scottish fiction has been creating some of the most powerful, vibrant writing to be found anywhere . . . It will be a hard-hearted reader who does not emerge with a profound respect forthe imagination and scope of contemporary Scottish writing’ Rosemary Goring, Scotland on Sunday ‘It always helps to know where the editorial line of an anthology is coming from. This one, I can guarantee you, comes straight from the horse’s mouth’ Jenny Turner, Independent on Sunday ‘English north of the border is displayed in an exhilarating diversity of timbre and voice, with little sign of a cultural cringe towards standardization’ Tom Deveson, Sunday Times

Author : J. Karnicky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603599
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture written by J. Karnicky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world.

Author : R. Mookerjee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137341084
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgressive Fiction written by R. Mookerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk.

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351809156
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature written by A. Robert Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beat literature? Have not the great canonical names long grown familiar? Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs. Likewise the frontline texts, still controversial in some quarters, assume their place in modern American literary history. On the Road serves as Homeric journey epic. "Howl" amounts to Beat anthem, confessional outcry against materialism and war. Naked Lunch, with its dark satiric laughter, envisions a dystopian world of power and word virus. But if these are all essentially America-centered, Beat has also had quite other literary exhalations and which invite far more than mere reception study. These are voices from across the Americas of Canada and Mexico, the Anglophone world of England, Scotland or Australia, the Europe of France or Italy and from the Mediterranean of Greece and the Maghreb, and from Scandinavia and Russia, together with the Asia of Japan and China. This anthology of essays maps relevant other kinds of Beat voice, names, texts. The scope is hemispheric, Atlantic and Pacific, West and East. It gives recognition to the Beat inscribed in languages other than English and reflective of different cultural histories. Likewise the majority of contributors come from origins or affiliations beyond the US, whether in a different English or languages spanning Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Greek, or Chinese. The aim is to recognize an enlarged Beat literary map, its creative internationalism.

Author : David Geherin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476608156
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scene of the Crime written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors for whom the setting greatly contributes to their overall literary style, this book focuses on the many ways that "place" figures in modern crime and mystery novels. The authors (and their settings) are: Georges Simenon (Paris), Donna Leon (Venice), Tony Hillerman (American Southwest), Walter Mosley (South Central Los Angeles), George P. Pelecanos (Washington, D.C.), Sara Paretsky (Chicago), James Lee Burke (Southern Louisiana), Carl Hiaasen (South Florida), Ian Rankin (Edinburgh), Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana), James McClure (South Africa), Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (Stockholm), Paco Ignacio Taibo II (Mexico City), Leonardo Sciascia (Sicily) and Lindsey Davis (Ancient Rome).

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950154692
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So You Wanna Be a Teacher, a Memoir: 32 Years of Sweat Hogs, Teen Angst, Hall Fights and Lifetime Friends written by Peter Kravitz and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Peter Kravitz' first day as a teacher, a veteran principal taught him the mantra that would carry him through thirty-two years in front of classes: Treat the children as if they were your own. A memoir.

Author : Robert Morace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137019344
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irvine Welsh written by Robert Morace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh, placing his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores Welsh's biography, his impact on contemporary Scottish fiction and the cultural relevance of his work. Including a timeline of key dates, it also offers an overview of the critical reception his work has provoked

Author : Jeff Torrington
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448161657
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swing Hammer Swing! written by Jeff Torrington and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious – thirty years in the writing – Torrington’s pulverised ’60s Glasgow is crammed to the crevices with a blizzard of his unique and insatiable genius.