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035 $a(OCoLC)26398897
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082 04 $a823$212A
100 1 $aPrice, Richard,$d1947 February 10-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86122704
245 14 $aThe fabulous matter of fact :$bThe poetics of Neil M.Gunn /$cRichard Price.
260 $aEdinburgh :$bEdinburgh University Press,$c1991.
300 $aix, 223 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aModern Scottish writers
504 $aBibliography: p. [209]-214.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $g1.$tCrawling from out the Hinterland --$g2.$tTwilight and New Morning --$g3.$tMaking History --$g4.$tDifferent Sources --$g5.$tCity Work and Country Play --$g6.$tProgress and Progression --$g7.$tThe War at Home --$g8.$tThe Good Shepherd --$g9.$tGod's Fools --$g10.$tA New Commandment.
520 $aThe 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starting point and provides the reader with both a comprehensive study of all Gunn's extant novels (including an early unpublished novel), and a detailed account of the literary context within which Gunn worked.
520 8 $aClose 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.
520 8 $a. 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.
600 10 $aGunn, Neil M.,$d1891-1973$xCriticism and interpretation.
830 0 $aModern Scottish writers.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91075040
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