Title: Out of history : narrative paradigms in Scottish and English culture /
Authors: Craig, Cairns.
Publisher: Polygon,
Year: 1996
Subjects: English literature Scottish authors History and criticism Theory, etc.; Literature and society Scotland.; Literature and history Scotland.; Narration (Rhetoric); Scottish literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Scotland Civilization Historiography.; Scotland Relations England.; England Relations Scotland.; Scotland In literature.
Abstract: "Out of History explores the relationship between Scottish culture and the development of ideas of history in Western culture, from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism, and looks at the ways in which these ideas have been represented in Scottish writing from Sir Walter Scott to Alasdair Gray and James Kelman." "The book challenges traditional ways of seeing Scottish culture in relation to English culture in the writings of twentieth-century theorists from T.S. Eliot and Edwin Muir to Raymond Williams and Tom Nairn and presents Scotland as a model of the complexities of cultural identity in the modern world."--Jacket.