Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Mackay Brown
Language: English
Published by John Murray Pubs Ltd, 2004
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Book Condition, As New: An unread, unused book in close to perfect condition. Faint marks across the dust jacket, but otherwise pristine, free from major blemishes, cover photograph remains bright and vibrant. Dj now protected by plastic slipcover. Original black cloth binding with silver lettering along the spine remains in mint condition. Small spots of light foxing across the text block, but mostly clean, crisp page edges. Pages are tightly bound, clean and tidy throughout, never thumbed or opened. A first edition hardback, collectible as an early and substantial critical anthology of George Mackay Brown’s work edited by Rowena and Brian Murray. First printings of scholarship on Brown are relatively scarce, especially in hardback, making this an important addition for collectors of Scottish literature and critical studies. This critical volume brings together essays and reflections on the life, poetics, and cultural influence of George Mackay Brown, one of the Orkney-born writer’s most distinctive voices. Contributors examine his verse, prose, and mythic sensibility, situating his work within broader literary and historical contexts. With close readings and interpretive insight, the book provides readers with a nuanced understanding of Brown’s themes—place, tradition, spirituality, and narrative form—offering both scholarly depth and accessibility to those engaging deeply with his oeuvre.…
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- Title
- Interrogation of Silence: The Writings of George Mackay Brown
- Author
- Murray, Rowena; Murray, Brian
- Publisher
- John Murray Pubs Ltd
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0719559294
- ISBN 13
- 9780719559297
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 635 grams
- Dimensions
- 3.18 centimeters width by 16.51 centimeters height by 24.77 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- 1st Edition
George Mackay Brown was arguably Scotland's finest poet and writer of the twentieth century. He spent much of his life on Orkney, where he wrote and published extensively. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize in 1988, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year in 1994. He died in 1996, having published over 40 works, including poetry, plays, novels, short stories, essays, children's books and his autobiography.
Surprisingly, given George Mackay Brown's wide readership and acclaim, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive study of his work, taken as a whole. Brian and Rowena Murray chart the development of Brown's ideas and style, through description and analysis, identifying phases in his work, including comparative study of versions of key works. They demonstrate Brown's remarkable gifts exercised in pursuit of 'The poet's true task', taking the writer's frequent references to his quest for silence and repeated revisions of even published and well received work, to reflect his enduring concern to achieve perfection of form and expression.
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About the Author
Rowena Murray graduated in Scottish Literature and Fine Art from the University of Glasgow. She studied and lectured in the United States, gaining a PhD for a thesis on George Mackay Brown, and she is now Reader in the Centre for Academic Practice at the University of Strathclyde. She has published extensively, on literature, on writing in academic research, teaching and educational development.
Brian Murray read English at Glasgow University and was a teacher in the West of Scotland. With Archie Bevon he has been editing the unpublished and uncollected work of George Mackay Brown - seven volumes to date, with an eighth just completed. Like his daughter Rowena, he was a long-term friend of the writer.
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