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Orra English: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Nuanced Narrative Mode
15 October, University of Aberdeen – free
Marking the 125th anniversary of the birth of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon, this free talk looks at Gibbon’s unique approach to the literary use of the Scots language
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/24636/
#Scottish #literature #LewisGrassicGibbon #JamesLeslieMitchell #SunsetSong #AScotsQuair #Scots #Scotslanguage
“If you are Scottish, on the old side, the sort of person who was in an upper stream at school, it’s probable that SUNSET SONG already holds a place in your mental closet. If you aren’t, you may never have heard of it”
—Jenny Turner on Lewis Grassic Gibbon, for the London Review of Books
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n13/jenny-turner/hated-and-loved-in-a-breath
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #LewisGrassicGibbon #SunsetSong
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
10/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic1/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction #LewisGrassicGibbon
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
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”
7/10
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2007/05/why-everybody-needs-smeddum/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #ShortStory #LewisGrassicGibbon
“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)
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
“Not only did he invent a sentence structure that works like breath through the body of the reader, & a kind of Scottish English that’s simultaneously rich & spare, but [A SCOTS QUAIR is] a formally stunning & cunning work of art”
—Ali Smith, writing in 2019
3/10
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/29/ali-smith-books-that-made-me
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #Scots #Scotslanguage #LewisGrassicGibbon
“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
2/10
https://www.thenational.scot/news/15550316.lewis-grassic-gibbon-uncovering-the-morning-star/
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #LewisGrassicGibbon
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born on this day, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century.
A 🎂 🧵 …
1/10
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction #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
James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born #OTD, 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from historical fiction to science fiction – he is one of the most important Scottish writers of the 20th century
A 🎂 🧵…
1/9
#Scottish #literature #modernism #20thcentury #HistoricalFiction #ScienceFiction #LewisGrassicGibbon
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
#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
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
Play For Today, Series 6: Clay, Smeddum and Greenden:
#LewisGrassicGibbon #Scotland #Play #Drama #Smeddum #TV #Doric
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w2k3
Clay, Smeddum & Greenden
Tonight, 7 Feb, BBC4, 10pm & thereafter on the iPlayer
A trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon set in a Scottish east-coast farming community in the interwar years. Dramatised for television by Bill Craig.
#Scottish #literature #Television #LewisGrassicGibbon #20thCentury
#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