Alasdair Gray
By: Stephen Bernstein.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Gray, Alasdair -- Criticism and interpretation.; Scotland -- In literature.
Description: "Since the publication of Lanark in 1981 Alasdair Gray has been a figure of importance in contemporary literature. Now, through attention to mixed genre, counter-historical narrative, and the thematics of memory, this first study of Alasdair Gray's novels shows the coherence of the Scottish writer's varied body of work. Stephen Bernstein refuses to view Gray's work through the vague lens of postmodernism, seeing Gray instead as a writer at home in a variety of literary traditions.

Beginning by providing an American audience with backgrounds to Gray's work, this study recounts the chronology of his publications and their reception by an international audience, simultaneously placing his writing in the contexts of Scottish culture and literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-183) and index.