Poetic politics: writers and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

PE English;PN Literature (General);PN0080 Criticism;PN0441 Literary History;PR English literature;PZ Childrens literature

Hamlin, Sarah Elizabeth ; William Georgetti Scholarship ; Brown, Rhona

University:University of Glasgow

Department:School of Critical Studies

关键词: Scottish, referendum, independence, nationalism, unionism, British, Archipelagic, post-colonial, postcolonial, post-colonialism, ecopoetics, eco-poetics, ecology, environment, feminism, British Empire, Scotland, democracy, rhetoric, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, Edwin Morgan, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Makar, Laureate, poet, national, Kathleen Jamie, John Burnside, Yes, No, indyref.;   

Others  :  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8902/7/2017HamlinPhD.pdf

来源: University of Glasgow

【 摘 要 】

This thesis considers the works of six major literary figures in the context of their engagement with the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. These writers are, in order of analysis, Edwin Morgan, J.K. Rowling, Liz Lochhead, Alasdair Gray, Kathleen Jamie, and John Burnside. Each has produced a significant literary oeuvre which is examined here in relation to each other's work and to the Referendum debate. The multifaceted relationship between literature and politics is investigated through the lens of the Referendum, utilising these six figures as interrelated case studies. Chapter One explores Edwin Morgan and J.K. Rowling in relation to each other and the concept of nationalism as manifested in the Referendum period. Chapter Two focuses on postcolonialism and the work of Alasdair Gray and Liz Lochhead in that same context. The third and final chapter is concerned with Kathleen Jamie's and John Burnside's preoccupation with ecopoetics, and how that concern overlapped with Referendum discourse. This thesis provides new readings of these six writers in the context of the Referendum. It sets out to establish that, while their published literary works are often connected to the spectrum of stances these writers took regarding the Referendum, these works need to be considered with respect to the nuanced attention all six had previously given to key themes of the Referendum debate in the decades leading up to that political moment.