Essential for both new students and longtime admirers, this collection of papers discussing Lewis Grassic Gibbon's fiction (including works written under his pen name James Leslie Mitchell) includes his essays and poetry, as well as analysis of his language and politics.

This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present.
Key theoretical and conceptual issues raised by the...