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James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon: un modernista ai margini dell'arcipelago britannico
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"Changing Times: a Post-Indyref view from Italy"
Full text linkI was commissioned to write this article, as part of a special issue of SSL devoted to European and world perspectives on the possible impact of the 2014 Scottish referendum on independence on the development of the academic field of Scottish studies. My article sets the referendum against Italian political expectations and ideals, and briefly reconstructs both the popular and academic responses to the possibility of an independent Scotland in the course of 2014. It also explores and questions a (too) close bond between contingent political agendas and the definition of an inter/national field of studies
Alan Riach, Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography: The Masks of a Modern Nation, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
No full textPowell, Avril A., Scottish Orientalists and India: The Muir Brothers, Religion, Education and Empire, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010
No full textDrawing on an impressive range of archival sources, Avril A. Powell provides a remarkably detailed reconstruction of the lives and achievements of two brothers, who were among the most prominent (and yet underinvestigated) Scottish orientalists in the 19th century – Dr John Muir (1810-1882) and Sir William Muir (1819-1844). Born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, into a family which had built its economic fortune around commerce and trade with India, both became renowned scholars, educators and administrators in the East India Company and the Raj in North-West India between 1827 and 1876, and both, on their return from India, became influential intellectuals on the Edinburgh scene. John, a renowned Sankritist, would further his studies on Hindu religion and history and lead a semi-withdrawn scholar’s life in Edinburgh, while William, whose remarkable career had seen him rise to the Lieutenant-Governorship of the NWP, would first take up a seat on the Council of India in London and then preside as Principal of the University of Edinburgh. An established Islamist and Arabist, he, like his older brother, also engaged in study and publication, his own focus being the origins and history of Islam. Powell’s study, however, goes a long way beyond the conventional biographer’s chronological and empirical approach, in at least three ways
Silke Stroh, Uneasy Subjects. Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011.
No full textI nuovi bardi. Poesia gallese contemporanea (a cura di Sioned Puw Rowlands, traduzione di Andrea Bianchi e Silvana Siviero) Faenza: Mobydick, 1999
No full textWhy Scottish Literature Matters
No full textWHY SCOTTISH LITERATURE MATTERS - TABLE OF CONTENTS - 1. Approaches and intersections: a view from without. 2. Once upon a time there was a kingdom... Scotlands of the past. 3. Dislocations and relocations. Writing in the 18th century. 4. The Land of Romance and the cracked lookingglass. 5. Rule Caledonia. The ambiguous relation with the Empire. 6. Vernacular Cosmopolitans. The politics of the 'Scottish Renaissance'. 7. "Close your eyes and imagine a Scot": a question of (in)visibility. 8. 'Polychromata': towards a prismatic view of identity. 9. Dreaming Caledonia. Will there be a Scottish literature
Sorley MacLean/Somhairle MacGill-Eain
No full textDocumentary. First broadcast on 1 March 2002, 21.02-22.00. Interviewees: Seamus Heaney, William Gillies, Alasdair Macrae. Christopher Whyte, Carla Sassi et alia
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