'Travelling hopefully' : postmodern thought and the fictional practice of Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson
The postmodern context is one in which certain of the boundaries of the Scottish novel may be reassessed. Focusing upon reflexivity in language and the philosophical implications of it, postmodernism opens up a space wherein the 'grand narrative' of English criticism and the totalising aes...
Main Author: | Lumsden, Alison |
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University of Edinburgh
1991
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654130 |
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