George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

AvLinden Bicket

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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This 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 5 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Scottish Religious Cultures: Historical Perspectives
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474445764
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize 2018

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Linden Bicket is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Divinity in New College, at the University of Edinburgh. Originally from Ayrshire, she was awarded her PhD from the University of Glasgow in 2012. She has published widely on George Mackay Brown, and her research focuses on patterns of faith and skepticism in the fictive worlds of story, film, and theatre

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Brown’s life-long artistic commit-ment to place and locality (Orkney) and commitment to exploring whole-ness (which is related to holiness) make for fascinating reading, as does the author’s expert analysis of Brown’s aesthetic use of pre-Reformation history and commitment to offering his reader hope and the prospect of the redemption of the secular/profane... Bicket has whetted this reviewer’s appetite for a future deﬁnitive text from her hand detailing the full range of exponents of the Catholic imagination in Scotland over the entire twentieth-century and beyond, but whatever the future cultural production of Catholic artists and writers in the twenty-ﬁrst century, what seems assured is that its reception by a scholar of Bicket’s talent and judgement means it will be in safe hands.

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AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1: The Scottish Catholic Literary ImaginationChapter 2: A Biography of FaithChapter 3: MaryChapter 4: MagnusChapter 5: The Nativity of ChristEpilogue: The Last ThingsWorks Cited