Overview: Presents a view of major and minor writers of Scotland.Connects literary spatiality studies with Scottish studies.Contributes to literary urban studies and ecocriticism.This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience. Major genres and forms are discussed, and authors as diverse as George Mackay Brown, Kathleen Jamie, Ken McLeod and Ke
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