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The fiction of Robin Jenkins : some kind of grace /

The Fiction of Robin Jenkins' is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as?the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature?, and by the Scotsman in 2000 as?the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland the Scottish Thomas Hardy?. This ne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gifford, Douglas, 1940- (Editor ), Bicket, Linden (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Colección:SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Range and Achievement of Robin Jenkins: An Introductory Overview / Gavin Wallace and Douglas Gifford
  • 'Fresh and truthful eyes': Jenkins's Early Scottish Fiction (1950-1958) / Isobel Murray
  • Ironic Mythology: Reading the Fictiveness of The Cone-Gatherers / Gerard Carruthers
  • 'To Bring Profoundest Sympathy': Jenkins and Community / Timothy C. Baker
  • The Art of Uncertainty: Forms of Omniscience in the Novels of Robin Jenkins / Cairns Craig
  • Realism, Symbolism, and Authorial Manipulation in The Changeling / Douglas Gifford
  • Robin Jenkins: Perspectives on the Postcolonial / Glenda Norquay
  • Robin Jenkins: The Short Stories / Alan Riach
  • 'Pilgrims of Conscience' in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins / Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir
  • What's the Story in Fergus Lamont? Or 'Where was Fergus when Kennedy got Shot?' / Michael Lamont and Douglas Gifford
  • Confessions of an Unbeliever: Religion in the Novels of Robin Jenkins / Bernard Sellin
  • 'A Kind of Truth': Innocence and Corruption in Lady Magdalen and Just Duffy / Margery Palmer McCulloch
  • The Past is Not a Foreign Country: Jenkins, Scotland and History / David S. Robb
  • Reprise or Resolution? A Would-be Saint and Robin Jenkins's Final Novel, The Pearl Fishers / Linden Bicket
  • Old Themes and Self-Reflection in Jenkins's Later Novels / Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir.