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The Department of Scottish Literature is the only academic department in the UK to focus pre-eminently on the Scottish literary tradition in its teaching and research activities. This unique focus brings together a group of scholars who are active in editing the work of major Scottish canonical writers as well as engaging in research and publication in all periods of Scottish literature. This core research provides a particularly strong foundation for supervising new postgraduate research.
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The Department of Scottish Literature is the only academic department in the UK to focus exclusively on the Scottish literary tradition in its undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research activities. This unique focus brings together a group of scholars who are active in editing the work of major Scottish canonical writers as well as engaging in research and publication in all periods of Scottish literature. This core research is represented in the structure of the undergraduate degree programme, creating a research-led teaching culture.
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The English Department's interest in Scottish Literature and Culture extends throughout the English Department. Professor Tom McBride led an alumni seminar to Scotland in 2000 and plans to lead the Scottish Seminar in 2004. Authors such as Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alsadair Gray, Ian Crichton Smith, James Kelman, and Janice Galloway regularly appear on class reading lists. A special issue of the Beloit Fiction Journal published in 1988 introduced many important Scottish writers to the United States.
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The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation lists over 20,000 foreign translations of literary works by a wide range of Scottish authors, including individual poems and stories as well as complete books. It covers translations into all languages of authors of every period published since 1500. Read more about BOSLIT. An example of research based on the BOSLIT database can be found in Paul Barnaby's article 'Three into one: twentieth-century Scottish verse in translation anthologies' (Translation and literature, v.9, pt.2, 2000, published by Edinburgh University Press).
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The Scottish CD contains the full text of 332 books, covering history, literature, religion, philosophy, and science. The literature includes periodicals (The Edinburgh Review and the Chambers Edinburgh Review) and such authors as Boswell, Burns, Carlyle, De Quincey, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lang, Saki, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson. It ... includes the 2007 CIA World Factbook.
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Still, this image of Highland and tartan history is one in which the Scottish nation still places a great deal of stock, at least in its literature and film. Even more confounding to foreign sensibilities, there are other, equally salient ways of viewing Scotland and the Scots which are prevalent in fiction about that small country. Such alternate discourses evoke images as contrary as Glasgow hard men and prim Edinburgh lawyers; Clyde shipbuilders and rural, very proper Presbyterian villagers; plucky Gaels and ruddy-cheeked, whisky-swilling Highlanders in ridiculous plaid dress. Yet, while all of these images seem to be recognizably 'Scottish,' they do little justice to everyday Scotland, even while they retain a very real role in preserving many Scots' sense of their own national identity.
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