George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination / / Linden Bicket.

An innovative study of George Mackay Brown as a Scottish Catholic writer with a truly international reachShortlisted for the 2018 Ecclesiastical History Society book prizeThis lively new study is the very first book to offer an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic f...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Scottish Religious Cultures : SRC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Abbreviations --
Chapter 1 The Scottish Catholic Literary Imagination --
Chapter 2 A Biography of Faith --
Chapter 3 Mary --
Chapter 4 Magnus --
Chapter 5 The Nativity of Christ --
Epilogue The Last Things --
Works Cited --
Index
Summary:An innovative study of George Mackay Brown as a Scottish Catholic writer with a truly international reachShortlisted for the 2018 Ecclesiastical History Society book prizeThis 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 and includes detailed comparisons between Brown's writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Flannery O'Connor. This timely book reveals that Brown's Catholic imagination extended far beyond the 'small green world' of Orkney and ultimately embraced a universal human experience.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474411660
9783110781403
DOI:10.1515/9781474411660?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Linden Bicket.