The Fiction of Brian McCabe and (Scottish) Identity

This study is the first monograph on the Scottish writer Brian McCabe. It focuses mainly on McCabe's fiction and on the elements in his writing that allow for a redefinition of individual and national identity. The book opens with an examination of the socio-cultural context that shapes McCabe's position in contemporary Scottish literature. The author goes on to consider McCabe as a writer of the Second Renaissance and the generation of the Lost Poets, and also focuses on the Scottish preoccupation with identity and its representations in the contemporary Scottish short story. Finally, she provides a chronological and thematic analysis of McCabe's short story collections The Lipstick Circus, In a Dark Room with a Stranger and A Date with my Wife, and his novel The Other McCoy.

List of contents

Contents: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Problematics of Identity - Brian McCabe - The Short Story and Identity - The Lipstick Circus - Madness and Strangeness - In a Dark Room With a Stranger - Childhood and Strangeness - A Date With My Wife - The Self and the Stranger - The Other McCoy - The Self and the Jekyll-and-Hyde Figure.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2013
• EAN: 9783034308304
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3430830-4
• No. of pages: 303
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland; Studies in the History and Culture of Scotland
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Englisch, Grossbritannien, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, britisch, Britannien, Brite, Literaturwissenschaft: ab 2000, Lost Poets; literature; short story