Ten Modern Scottish Novels, and: A Blasphemer and Reformer: A Study of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and: Lewis Grassic Gibbon (review)

This work is the first book-length study of Scottish Great War literature. Rather than arguing the war exerted a singular influence on the country’s writing, the collection highlights the variety of literary, social, political, and philosophical reverberations of the war in Scotland literature. Part one of the collection presents multi-text case studies of nationalism, pastoralism, Scottish Great War prose, popular literature, women’s, letters to the editor, Gaelic writing, and philosophy. Part two contains essays devoted to individual authors, including canonical figures such as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nan Shepherd, Neil Gunn and John Buchan, as well as peripheral authors such as George A. C. Mackinlay, Charles Murray and Ewart Alan Mackintosh.

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Distant Cousin Lewis Grassic Gibbon: A Scots Quair (Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite) and Scottish Scene

Lewis Grassic Gibbon ◽

10.3828/liverpool/9781789620627.003.0007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 69-126

Author(s):

William K. Malcolm

Keyword(s):

Original Research ◽

Political Perspective ◽

Literary Influences ◽

Narrative Techniques ◽

Political Character ◽

Contemporary Context ◽

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

A quarter of this monograph is devoted to Gibbon’s masterpiece, the trilogy A Scots Quair, approached as a strategically integrated volume. This chapter places the book within its contemporary context, using original research to focus authoritatively on the aims and ideals that shaped its social, political, cultural and philosophical achievement. Sunset Song garners greatest attention for its bespoke narrative techniques and for the eclectic deployment of literary influences from Scotland and elsewhere. The nostalgic power and moral impact of this first novel as a compelling bildungsroman and an elegy for the crofting society destroyed by the war feeds into the more overtly political character of the remaining parts of the trilogy. The revolutionary political perspective at the heart of the work is convincingly based on the author’s ready identification with the subaltern classes, marking it as the highest form of littérature engagée. The Gibbon contributions to Scottish Scene are considered in relation to the central achievement of the trilogy, with the Scottish stories replicating the author’s signature style and, in ‘Forsaken’, successfully carrying it to a more sophisticated level of stylistic experimentation. The polemical essays are welcomed for shedding light on the author’s ideas and beliefs, about literature, politics, history and religion.

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Leslie Mitchell: Lewis Grassic Gibbon

English Journal of the English Association ◽

10.1093/english/16.96.236 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 16 (96) ◽

pp. 236-236

Author(s):

I. M. Campbell

Keyword(s):

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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Le skopos comme stratégie de déblocage : dialecte et scotticité dans Sunset Song de Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Meta Journal des traducteurs ◽

10.7202/013555ar ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 504-523 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Élisabeth Lavault-Olléon

Keyword(s):

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Résumé Le roman-culte de la trilogie écossaise de Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, paru en 1932, a résisté à la traduction en français pendant près de 70 ans, principalement à cause de son style : celui-ci est non seulement une écriture personnelle mais aussi un manifeste pour la valeur littéraire du dialecte écossais que l’auteur a intimement mêlé à l’anglais afin de créer une prose poétique écossaise unique. L’imitation du dialecte ou l’adaptation dans un dialecte francophone étant irréalisables, c’est la réflexion sur la fonction de la traduction française, par le biais de la théorie fonctionnaliste du skopos, qui a permis de définir la stratégie de traduction à utiliser.

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