Kailyard and Scottish LiteratureRodopi, 2007 - 268 σελίδες For more than a century, the word 'Kailyard' has been a focal point of Scottish literary and cultural debate. Originally a term of literary criticism, it has come to be used, often pejoratively, across a whole range of academic and popular discourse. Historians, politicians and critics of Scottish film and media have joined literary scholars in using the term to set out a diagnosis of Scottish culture. This is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Andrew Nash traces the origins of the Kailyard diagnosis in the nineteenth century and considers the critical concerns that gave rise to it. He then provides a full reassessment of the literature most commonly associated with the term - the fiction of J.M. Barrie, S.R. Crockett and Ian Maclaren. Placing this work in more appropriate contexts, he considers the literary, social and religious imperatives that underpinned it and discusses the impact of these writers in the publishing world. These chapters are succeeded by detailed analysis of the various ways in which the term has been used in wider discussions of Scottish literature and culture. Discussing literary criticism, film studies, and political and sociological analyses of Scotland, Nash shows how Kailyard, as a critical term, helps expose some of the key issues in Scottish cultural debate in the twentieth century, including discussions over national representation, popular culture and the parochialism of Scottish culture. |
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... George Blake's Barrie and the Kailyard School (1951). Although the title suggests a close focus on the 1890s and on Barrie's work in particular, Blake's book is really an exposure of what Andrew Noble has described as Scotland's “Urbane ...
... George Blake's Barrie and the Kailyard School (1951). Although the title suggests a close focus on the 1890s and on Barrie's work in particular, Blake's book is really an exposure of what Andrew Noble has described as Scotland's “Urbane ...
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... George Blake's terms, as Scotland's woeful alternative to Dickens and Gaskell (never mind the fact that these great English yardsticks were, respectively, eighteen and twenty three years dead by the time Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls was ...
... George Blake's terms, as Scotland's woeful alternative to Dickens and Gaskell (never mind the fact that these great English yardsticks were, respectively, eighteen and twenty three years dead by the time Barrie's Auld Licht Idylls was ...
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... work . A literary climate had been forged where factual anecdotes about real places could go together hand in hand with imaginative stories . As George Blake wrote in his attack on Barrie and the Kailyard in 30 Chapter One.
... work . A literary climate had been forged where factual anecdotes about real places could go together hand in hand with imaginative stories . As George Blake wrote in his attack on Barrie and the Kailyard in 30 Chapter One.
Σελίδα 32
... George Blake, for example, notes simply of all the Kailyard novels that “Scotland's two leading newspapers, the Glasgow Herald and the Scotsman, received the works with gravity, if with native caution ” ( Blake 1951 : 88 ) . But 32 ...
... George Blake, for example, notes simply of all the Kailyard novels that “Scotland's two leading newspapers, the Glasgow Herald and the Scotsman, received the works with gravity, if with native caution ” ( Blake 1951 : 88 ) . But 32 ...
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... George Blake's lament on the absence of realistic treatments of nineteenth - century Scotland , Wallace would have realised his hopes were not to be fulfilled . Some twenty years after the contemporary Kailyard critics complained of the ...
... George Blake's lament on the absence of realistic treatments of nineteenth - century Scotland , Wallace would have realised his hopes were not to be fulfilled . Some twenty years after the contemporary Kailyard critics complained of the ...
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S R Crockett Romancing Galloway | 91 |
The Sentimental Art of Ian Maclaren | 129 |
The Marketing of Kailyard and the Debate | 169 |
The Critical Kailyard | 203 |
Bibliography | 251 |
Index | 265 |
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Σελίδα 84 - The horror of my boyhood was that I knew a time would come when I also must give up the games, and how it was to be done I saw not (this agony still returns to me in dreams, when I catch myself playing marbles, and look on with cold displeasure) ; I felt that I must continue playing in secret...
Σελίδα 82 - ... what anxiety there was about the purchase, the show they made in possession of the west room, my father's unnatural coolness when he brought them in (but his face was white) — I so often heard the tale afterwards, and shared as boy and man in so many similar triumphs, that the coming of the chairs seems to be something I remember, as if I had jumped out of bed on that first day, and run ben to see how they looked. I am sure my mother's feet were ettling to be ben long before they could be trusted,...
Σελίδα 66 - The house stood bare, without a shrub, in a garden whose paling did not go all the way round, the potato pit being only kept out of the road, that here sets off southward, by a broken dyke of stones and earth. On each side of the slate-colored door was a window of knotted glass. Ropes were flung over the thatch to keep the roof on in wind.
Σελίδα 132 - If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. I have had heart-cutting experience that opinions are a poor cement between human souls; and the only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings is, that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling, erring, human creatures.
Σελίδα 67 - On each side of the slate-coloured door was a window of knotted glass. Ropes were flung over the thatch to keep the roof on in wind. Into this humble abode I would take any one who cares to accompany me. But you must not come in a contemptuous mood, thinking that the poor are but a stage removed from beasts of burden, as some cruel writers of these days say ; nor will I have you turn over with your foot the shabby horse-hair chairs that Leeby kept so speckless, and Hendry weaved for years to buy,...
Σελίδα 215 - So that was Kinraddie that bleak winter of nineteen eleven and the new minister, him they chose early next year, he was to say it was the Scots countryside itself, fathered between a kailyard and a bonny brier bush in the lee of a house with green shutters. And what he meant by that you could guess at yourself if you'da mind for puzzles and dirt, there wasn'ta house with green shutters in the whole of Kinraddie.
Σελίδα 209 - From this point of view the value of the Doric lies in the extent to which it contains lapsed or unrealised qualities which correspond to 'unconscious' elements of distinctively Scottish psychology.
Σελίδα 156 - ... heaven. Sae a' said naethin' tae vex Tammas's hert, for it's heavy eneuch withoot regrets. "But it's hard, Jess, that money wull buy life after a', an' if Annie wes a duchess her man wudna lose her; but bein' only a puir cottar's wife, she maun dee afore the week's oot.
Σελίδα 95 - ginger-beer" all day with the landlord. Ginger-beer is an unsteadying beverage when taken the day by the length. Also the man who drinks it steadily and quietly never enters on any inheritance of length of days. So it came to pass that one night Gavin Balchrystie did not come home at all — at least, not till he was brought lying comfortably on the door of a disused third-class carriage, which was now seeing out its career anchored under the bank at Loch Merrick, where Gavin had used it as a shelter....
Σελίδα 83 - The reason my books deal with the past instead of with the life I myself have known is simply this, that I soon grow tired of writing tales unless I can see a little girl, of whom my mother has told me, wandering confidently through the pages. Such a grip has her memory of her girlhood had upon me since I was a boy of six.