Literature and Languages

Setuomenuo Ao

Sarah Anderson

Sylvia Armstrong

Susan Clare

Bridget Joyce Bailey

Rachel Anne Bowles

Sean Fealy

Colette Frances Gilhooley

Citim Kanat

Liam Dodds

David William Freeburn

Aileen Veronica Ireland

Ruth Alison MacPhail

Kelly Gardner

Bradley McManus

Maria Giakaniki

Johan Erik Martin Sandberg

Kate Frances Harvey

Dean Hurr Mohammad

Thomas Edward Paskins

Bridget Anne Rohde

Beth Patricia Wild

Janice Ross

Email:- j.a.ross@stir.ac.uk

Supervisor - Professor David Richards

Christopher Silver

Email:- c.h.silver@stir.ac.uk

Supervisor - Dr Scott Hames

‘Out of Blawearie and into the world’? An enquiry into decentralization, globalization, and the communal narratives of Lewis Grassic Gibbon

My work this year aims to look at the significance of the locality in the work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon as the site of change and the forum in which it can be understood. I intend to discuss how the use of such a lens in A Scots Quair is not a regressive exercise. Indeed, in the context of a world that has become ever more intertwined, I would argue that it has the potential to explore the significance of emergent theories of world literature, and t narrative itself.

By tapping into globalization theory I would seek to examine how the artist can be situated in a globalized world that retains a sense of community but which, due to their interplay, is constantly altering cultural value and meaning at a local level. The crux of my research will ask whether Gibbon’s narrative creates a paradigm which can be used to challenge (or at least modify) the impact of such forces, and whether the decentralizing innovations of the Scottish Renaissance were instrumental in this regard.

Awards

1 Year Departmental Bursary