Prizing Scottish Literature - A Cultural History of the Saltire Society Literary Awards

Informationen zum Autor Stevie Marsden is a research associate at the CAMEo Research Institute for Cultural and Media Economies, University of Leicester, and a lecturer in publishing at the University of Derby. This is her first monograph. Klappentext This history of the Saltire Society Literary Awards demonstrates the significance the awards have had within Scottish literary and cultural life. The book explores how the prizes have influenced understandings of Scottish literature over eight decades and explores what they reveal about the wider mechanisms of how literary prize culture functions in the UK today. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I; 1. The History of the Saltire Society; 2. The Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year; 3. The Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award; Part II; 4. 'What's This Got to Do with Scotland?': Qualifying Scottishness through Terms of Eligibility; 5. Noticing Talent: Michel Faber, James Kelman, A. L. Kennedy, Ali Smith and the Saltire Society Literary Awards; 6. Not Your Typical Book Award: New Ways of Thinking about Literary Awards; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Stevie Marsden
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2022
• EAN: 9781839987168
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-716-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Studies in Book History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies