The novelist Neil M. Gunn is perhaps best remembered for his evocative accounts of Highland life. But here, Richard Price goes beyond this to provide a comprehensive study of all Gunn's novels, as well as a detailed account of the literary context within which he worked. Enriched by reference to his poetry, short stories, essays and letters, it traces Gunn's work from his angry beginnings as a Highland writer, through to his assimilation of modernism in the 1930s and the political themes of his wartime 'fables' to show how the narrative ingenuity of his later works delivers a searching scrutiny of brutality and intellectual vanity.
Language
English
Pages
223
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Release
May 20, 1992
ISBN
0748602593
ISBN 13
9780748602599
The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn
The novelist Neil M. Gunn is perhaps best remembered for his evocative accounts of Highland life. But here, Richard Price goes beyond this to provide a comprehensive study of all Gunn's novels, as well as a detailed account of the literary context within which he worked. Enriched by reference to his poetry, short stories, essays and letters, it traces Gunn's work from his angry beginnings as a Highland writer, through to his assimilation of modernism in the 1930s and the political themes of his wartime 'fables' to show how the narrative ingenuity of his later works delivers a searching scrutiny of brutality and intellectual vanity.