#lewisgrassicgibbon — Public Fediverse posts

Prof Scott Lyall discusses SUNSET SONG – a talk given at our Schools Conference in 2015

9/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #SunsetSong #LewisGrassicGibbon

SUNSET SONG

Currently on the iPlayer: the digitally restored 1971 BBC adaptation of the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s SCOTS QUAIR trilogy about a young girl’s intellectual & sexual development in rural north-east Scotland just before WW1

8/10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #SunsetSong #LewisGrassicGibbon #drama #adaptation

“And so with the moderns”: The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS

—Scott Lyall, CLOTHO 4/2 (2022)

@litstudies

6/10

https://journals.uni-lj.si/clotho/article/view/11511

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #Spartacus #LewisGrassicGibbon

(I have always thought that the first sentence of James Leslie Mitchell’s SPARTACUS is up there with some of the great opening lines in literature …)

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #Spartacus #OpeningLines #LewisGrassicGibbon

“SPARTACUS will be seen as one of his most enduring achievements, still vivid, still experimental, still burning with the anger he felt at the barbarous events of history”

Ian Campbell discusses James Leslie Mitchell’s brutal & unflinching novel SPARTACUS (1933)

5/10

https://asls.org.uk/james-leslie-mitchells-spartacus/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Rome #AncientRome #LewisGrassicGibbon #Spartacus

SUNSET SONG: a Scottish Gift to German Readers

Regina Erich compares the original German translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy, published in the GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany

4/10

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/sunset-song-a-scottish-gift-to-german-readers/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #translation #German #GDR #LewisGrassicGibbon

The International Companion to Lewis Grassic Gibbon
ed. Scott Lyall

The best contemporary guide to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s/James Leslie Mitchell’s literature, politics, life, & work – available in print or online via Project MUSE

9/9

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage

Prof Scott Lyall discusses SUNSET SONG – a talk given at our Schools Conference in 2015

8/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84NMdO47oy4&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WYcu-9sTwjGIqkJDYOImwgK

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage

SUNSET SONG

Currently on the iPlayer: the digitally restored 1971 BBC adaptation of the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s SCOTS QUAIR trilogy about a young girl’s intellectual & sexual development in rural north-east Scotland just before WW1

7/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m001bm9l/sunset-song

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage #adaptation #TV

Why Everybody Needs Smeddum

“The heroine, Meg Menzies, is Gibbon’s answer to Austen’s Mrs Bennet. In fact, she works as a kind of anti-Mrs Bennet.”

—Graeme Trousdale on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic short story “Smeddum”

6/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage #shortstory #shortfiction

SUNSET SONG: a Scottish Gift to German Readers

Regina Erich compares the original German translation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A SCOTS QUAIR trilogy published in the GDR between 1970 & 1986, with its more recent republication in a unified Germany

4/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/sunset-song-a-scottish-gift-to-german-readers/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #translation #German #EastGermany #GDR

“Not only did he invent a sentence structure that works like breath through the body of the reader, and a kind of Scottish English that’s simultaneously rich and spare, but [A SCOTS QUAIR is] a formally stunning and cunning work of art”

—Ali Smith in 2019, on James Leslie Mitchell / Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3/9

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage

Lewis Grassic Gibbon: Uncovering the morning star

“The ambiguity of authority & reliability in narration, in Scots or English, is central to Hogg, Galt, Stevenson, many others, but in Gibbon’s trilogy it is utterly deconstructed”

—Alan Riach: the influence of Gibbon on contemporary Scottish literature

2/9

https://www.thenational.scot/news/15550316.lewis-grassic-gibbon-uncovering-the-morning-star/

#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong #Scots #Scotslanguage

SUNSET SONG
5 Feb, BBC4 & on the iPlayer

A re-mastered version of BBC Scotland’s 1971 production to mark the 90th anniversary of author Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s death. The serial, acclaimed as one of the finest dramas made by the BBC, will be followed by sequels CLOUD HOWE and GREY GRANITE, which were made in the early 1980s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bm9g

#Scottish #literature #SunsetSong #LewisGrassicGibbon #20thcentury #TV #drama #adaptation

BBC News: Sunset Song: Enduring appeal of a Scottish classic

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2pd9xrxego
#SunsetSong #LewisGrassicGibbon #TV

Lewis Grassic Gibbon dedicated SUNSET SONG to Jean Baxter, a north-east poet, Doric champion, & the inspiration behind Gibbon’s leading character, Chris Guthrie. @NeilDrysdale speaks to Alison Baxter, whose book ANOTHER SONG AT SUNSET chronicles the life of her grandmother

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/6646279/how-sunset-songs-chris-guthrie-was-inspired-by-my-grandmother/

#Scottish #literature #SunsetSong #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon

For I Will Give You The Morning Star
A Celebration of the Life & Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
7 Feb, Edinburgh – free but ticketed

The Scottish novelist James Leslie Mitchell, AKA Lewis Grassic Gibbon, died on 7 Feb 1935, aged just 33. He wrote an astonishing range of books in his short but influential career, including SUNSET SONG – regularly voted Scotland’s favourite novel

https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5810/913:25312/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong

James Leslie Mitchell (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Gay Hunter (1934) - a landmark work of Scottish science fiction
#RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #ScottishSFF #sf #sff #sciencefiction #scottishliterature #lewisgrassicgibbon #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/road-to-glasgow-2024-gay-hunter-by-j-leslie-mitchell-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1989-originally-published-in-1934/

As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
#sf #sff #scottishsff #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #lewisgrassicgibbon #jameslesliemitchell #threegoback #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/road-to-glasgow-2024-three-go-back-by-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1995-originally-published-in-1932-as-three-go-back-by-j-leslie-mitchell/

As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
#sf #sff #scottishsff #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #lewisgrassicgibbon #jameslesliemitchell #threegoback #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/road-to-glasgow-2024-three-go-back-by-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1995-originally-published-in-1932-as-three-go-back-by-j-leslie-mitchell/

As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
#sf #sff #scottishsff #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #lewisgrassicgibbon #jameslesliemitchell #threegoback #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/road-to-glasgow-2024-three-go-back-by-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1995-originally-published-in-1932-as-three-go-back-by-j-leslie-mitchell/

As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
#sf #sff #scottishsff #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #lewisgrassicgibbon #jameslesliemitchell #threegoback #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/road-to-glasgow-2024-three-go-back-by-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1995-originally-published-in-1932-as-three-go-back-by-j-leslie-mitchell/

As the WorldCon ticks ever closer, here are my thoughts on a classic Scottish SF novel from the 1930s, Three Go Back by James Leslie Mitchell (aka Lewis Grassic Gibbon).
#sf #sff #scottishsff #RoadtoGlasgow2024 #Glasgow2024 #worldcon #lewisgrassicgibbon #jameslesliemitchell #threegoback #bookstodon

https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2024/07/26/road-to-glasgow-2024-three-go-back-by-lewis-grassic-gibbon-polygon-1995-originally-published-in-1932-as-three-go-back-by-j-leslie-mitchell/

#SunsetSong Series 1: 1. The Unfurrowed Field:
Part 1 of 6. #1971 production with #VivienHeilbron as #ChrisGuthrie
#LewisGrassicGibbon #Drama #Scotland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bm9g