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The Fabulous Matter of Fact

其他書名	The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn
出版	Edinburgh University Press, 1991
主題	Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN	07486025939780748602599
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=VctaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"The twentieth-century novelist Neil M. Gunn is best remembered for his evocative accounts of Highland life as given in The Silver Darlings, Morning Tide and Highland River. In The Fabulous Matter of Fact, Richard Price goes beyond this starting point and provides the reader with both a comprehensive study of all Gunn's extant novels (including an early unpublished novel), and a detailed account of the literary context within which Gunn worked. Close textual criticism is enriched by references to Gunn's poetry, short stories, essays and letters, and many of his key sources and allusions are identified for the first time. Price explores Gunn's early literary relationship with the Celtic Twilight writers of the late nineteenth century, and his subsequent relation to the work of modernists such as Eliot and Proust, showing that Gunn was much more aware of literary movements than has been believed." "Price also describes the historical context of the 1940s, focusing on Gunn's complex reaction to the war and his views on the nature of freedom, and he traces the extent, in Gunn's later novels, of his increasing interest in the limitations and loci of human compassion." "Including useful plot summaries and a radical re-reading of the novels from the mid-1940s onwards, this is the most wide-ranging, approachable and informative guide to the work of Neil M. Gunn available."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved