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By Michael Gardiner

This provocative publication argues that Scottish writing when you consider that 1960 has built in tandem with the information of such continental critical-theorists as Gilles Deleuze and Paul Virilio. Scottish writers are tested inside of a large theoretical context and contain Muriel Spark, Edwin Morgan, Ian Hamilton Finlay, James Kelman, Alexander Trocchi, Janice Galloway, Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh, Alan Riach, and Pat Kane.

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What is it that’s happening in those other places if not history? History has been hijacked, and Scots hijacked it themselves, gave it away, then covered their tracks. Was ist Aufklärung indeed. The lack of willingness to look the Enlightenment’s imperialistclassist place in this non-historicity in the eyeballs (Michael Fry’s account doesn’t count here, being a celebration of individual imperial ‘successes’)64 is disastrous in a post-devolution, post-theory age. Blinded by the humanistic successes of the Enlightenment, we still seem to be struggling to get over its violence – yet Scottish literary thought has been urging us to do just that.

18. 32. , p. 28. 33. , The Scottish Invention of English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1, 2. 34. , p. 16. The Paradox of Scottish Culture 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. , pp. 3, 6. , pp. 13–16. Muir, Scott and Scotland, p. 45. David Daiches, The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Eighteenth-Century Experience (London: Oxford University Press, 1964), pp. 19–20. , p. 19; cf. David Daiches, Robert Burns (London: G.

It might have been anywhere. All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in that sea of bricks. Of the five or six factory chimneys that I could see, I couldn’t even make a guess at which belonged to the brewery. Towards the eastern end of the town there were two enormous factories of glass and concrete. That accounts for the growth of the town, I thought . . [n]early the whole of what used to be old Brewer’s land had been swallowed up in the Council housing estate. The Mill Farm had vanished, the cow-pond where I caught my first fish had been drained and filled up and built over, so that I couldn’t even say exactly where it used to stand.

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