The short stories of Alistair MacLeod are strongly influenced by the traditional folk culture of the descendants of the Scots originally displaced by the highland clearances, especially those who settled in Cape Breton. In his treatment of that culture, however, MacLeod develops an ambivalent tension between past and present that results in his characters being caught between the two, tied to the former by memory while struggling to adjust to the demands and harsh realities of the latter.Les nouvelles d’Alistair MacLeod sont largement influencées par la culture traditionnelle des descendants des Écossais qui ont été déplacés à l’origine lors des campagnes d’évacuation des Highlands, et en particulier ceux qui se sont établis à l’île du Cap-...
This doctoral thesis is composed of two separate sections: a novel and a contextualising critical d...
The Scottish Gaelic tradition bearer Duncan MacDonald1 (1883-1954) was one of the most remarkable st...
This article aims to explore some of the controversial aspects that come up when dealing w...
This paper examines how Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod, in his latest short story entitled “Cleara...
Born in Canada and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Alistair MacLeod chooses the harsh landscape ...
Scottish emigration to North America is certainly one of the most relevant events in Scottish histor...
If Alistair MacLeod repeatedly examines similar themes and issues in his two collections of short st...
Alistair MacLeod talks about his work on his novel, No Great Mischief If They Fall (recently publish...
Zak Morgan nous expose divers moyens par lesquels les processus de Ia tradition orale parviennent a ...
In a much recounted anecdote, the writer James Hogg recalled a meeting between Sir Walter Scott and...
This article aims to explore some of the controversial aspects that come up when dealing with the Sc...
Realism and regionalism are tightly coupled in critical analysis of Alistair MacLeod’s fiction, but ...
Sheldon Currie's "The Glace Bay Miners' Museum" (1977) and Alistair MacLeod's "The Tuning of Perfect...
According to Pierre Nora, “[m]emory and history, far from being synonymous, appear now to be in fund...
First paragraph: In the only sustained exploration of Scottish-Canadian literary relations, Elizabet...
This doctoral thesis is composed of two separate sections: a novel and a contextualising critical d...
The Scottish Gaelic tradition bearer Duncan MacDonald1 (1883-1954) was one of the most remarkable st...
This article aims to explore some of the controversial aspects that come up when dealing w...
This paper examines how Canadian writer Alistair MacLeod, in his latest short story entitled “Cleara...
Born in Canada and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Alistair MacLeod chooses the harsh landscape ...
Scottish emigration to North America is certainly one of the most relevant events in Scottish histor...
If Alistair MacLeod repeatedly examines similar themes and issues in his two collections of short st...
Alistair MacLeod talks about his work on his novel, No Great Mischief If They Fall (recently publish...
Zak Morgan nous expose divers moyens par lesquels les processus de Ia tradition orale parviennent a ...
In a much recounted anecdote, the writer James Hogg recalled a meeting between Sir Walter Scott and...
This article aims to explore some of the controversial aspects that come up when dealing with the Sc...
Realism and regionalism are tightly coupled in critical analysis of Alistair MacLeod’s fiction, but ...
Sheldon Currie's "The Glace Bay Miners' Museum" (1977) and Alistair MacLeod's "The Tuning of Perfect...
According to Pierre Nora, “[m]emory and history, far from being synonymous, appear now to be in fund...
First paragraph: In the only sustained exploration of Scottish-Canadian literary relations, Elizabet...
This doctoral thesis is composed of two separate sections: a novel and a contextualising critical d...
The Scottish Gaelic tradition bearer Duncan MacDonald1 (1883-1954) was one of the most remarkable st...
This article aims to explore some of the controversial aspects that come up when dealing w...