Student Resources
QUESTIONS AND POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
What follows is a series of questions for further discussion arising
out of the foregoing chapters. All the questions allow plenty of
room for differing viewpoints according to varying political viewpoints and critical priorities of students and teachers.Chapter 1
| • | What function does the ‘Celtic’ component have in the rise of Scottish Literature in the late nineteenth century? |
| • | What does Edwin Muir mean by a ‘homogeneous language’, and how credible is this concept? |
| • | To what extent might we accuse much twentieth-century Scottish criticism of being pessimistic and even ‘defeatist’ in being Anglocentric? |
| • | How do we account for the changing place of ‘Protestantism’ in accounts of Scottish literary history? |
| • | What does the vocabulary of ‘antisyzygy’, ‘dissociation’, ‘reductive idiom’ ‘paradox’ and ‘crisis of identity’ have in common? |
Chapter 2
| • | Is the medieval period the first era of Scottish literature? |
| • | How ‘native’ or ‘cosmopolitan’, respectively, is Scottish |
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Publication information:
Book title: Scottish Literature.
Contributors: Gerard Carruthers - Author.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press.
Place of publication: Edinburgh.
Publication year: 2009.
Page number: 200.
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