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Bella Caledonia : woman, nation, text /
Looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional icon like Britannia or France's M...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Colección: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Looks at the widespread tradition of using a female figure to represent the nation, focusing on twentieth-century Scottish literature. The woman-as-nation figure emerged in Scotland in the twentieth century, but as a literary figure rather than an institutional icon like Britannia or France's Marianne. Scottish writers make use of familiar aspects of the trope such as the protective mother nation and the woman as fertile land, which are obviously problematic from a feminist perspective. But darker implications, buried in the long history of the figure, rise. |
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| Notas: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 2001 under the title 'The image of the nation as a woman in twentieth century Scottish literature.' |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (136 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441603531 1441603530 9789401206662 940120666X 9042025107 9789042025103 |