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Scotland in Theory offers new ways of reading Scottishtexts and culture within the context of an altered political frameworkand a changing sense of national identity. With the re-establishmentof a Parliament in Edinburgh, issues of nationality and nationalismcan be looked at afresh. It is timely now to revisit representationsof Scottish culture in cinematography and literature, and also toexamine aspects of gender, sexuality and ideology that have shaped howScots have come to understand themselves. Established and youngercritics use a variety of theoretical approaches here to catch anauthentic sense of a post-modern Scotland in the process of change.

Literature and the arts provide radical ways of knowing what Scotland, in theory, could become.

The collection will be of interest to teachers and students of Scottish and English literature, literary theory, cultural and media analysis, and the history of ideas. Contributors include Eleanor Bell, Kasia Boddy, Cairns Craig, Thomas Docherty, Christopher Harvie, Ellen Raïssa-Jackson, Willy Maley, Gavin Miller, Tom Nairn, Sarah Neely, Laurence Nicoll, Berthold Schoene, Anne McManus Scriven, A.J.P. Thomson, Ronald Turnbull, Christopher Whyte. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, published by Bibliographical Society of Canada on September 22, 1998. The length of the article is 7907 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Print culture in exile: the Scottish emigrant reader in the nineteenth century.
Author: Bill Bell
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of Canada
Volume: 36Issue: 2Page: 87-106

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Chapters: Pride Scotia, Glasgay! Festival, LGBT Youth Scotland, Pride Glasgow, ScotsGay,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Pride Scotia is Scotland's national LGBT pride festival. Since 1995, volunteers have organised a Pride March and a community-based festival in June, alternating between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Between 1995 and 2002, the pride marches were organised by "Pride Scotland", until it went bankrupt in December 2002 with debts of around £60,000. A new organisation, Pride Scotia, was founded in 2003 to continue the tradition of the annual march and festival. This organisation changed its name to Pride Scotia (Edinburgh) in 2004 and a separate organisation Pride Scotia (Glasgow) was created with the two organisations organising Pride Scotia in their respective cities in alternate years thereafter. Both organisations are Companies Limited by Guarantee but are not Scottish Charities. In 2008, the Glasgow arm of the organisation announced it was splitting completely, and has since used the name Pride Glasgow. In 1994, Laura Norris and Doogie Hothersall, both members of the University of Edinburgh LGBT society "BLOGS", decided to organise a Pride Parade to take place in the city of Edinburgh. The first Pride march in Scotland gathered on Barony Street in Edinburgh on the 17th of June. Police estimated that around 3000 people attended. The route followed was Broughton Street, Leith Street, Princes Street, the Mound, George IV Bridge, and down Middle Meadow Walk into the Meadows. The first Pride Festival on the Meadows began as the procession arrived, and had a stage and surrounding stalls. It continued regardless of the rain, until it was eventually unplugged by Lothian and Borders Police at 9pm following complaints from resi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6244250 ... Read more

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Chapters: Lgbt Churches in Scotland, Lgbt Community Centres in Scotland, Lgbt Culture in Scotland, Lgbt Organisations in Scotland, Lgbt People From Scotland, Lgbt Political Advocacy Groups in Scotland, Lgbt Rights Activists From Scotland, Lgbt Writers From Scotland, Jimmy Somerville, Carol Ann Duffy, John Barrowman, Ian Charleson, Alan Cumming, Dennis Nilsen, Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, Hector Macdonald, Edwin Morgan, Colin Mcallister and Justin Ryan, Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Gavin Maxwell, Jackie Forster, Pride Scotia, Jan Hamilton, Glasgay! Festival, Archibald Hall, Metropolitan Community Church of Edinburgh, Nick Henderson, Patrick Harvie, Colin Norris, Jackie Kay, Ali Smith, Val Mcdermid, John Henry Mackay, Steven Purcell, Rhona Cameron, Ricardo Pinto, Duncan Grant, Iain Smith, Richard Holloway, John Nicolson, Robert Colquhoun, Zoë Strachan, Joe Fitzpatrick, Charles Allen, Horse, David Mcvicar, John Fraser, Eddie Mair, Les Mckeown, Bryan Kirkwood, Joseph Fitzpatrick, Robert Macbryde, Tam Paton, Lgbt Youth Scotland, Andrew Stimpson, David Paisley, Ian Campbell Dunn, Glasgow Lgbt Centre, Equality Network, Karen Dunbar, Rodney Berman, Lgbt Network, Margaret Smith, Parents Enquiry Scotland, Hal Duncan, Pride Glasgow, Ellen Galford, Billy Lyall, Edinburgh Lgbt Centre, Outright Scotland, Scotsgay, Ourstory Scotland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 282. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:The Metropolitan Community Church Edinburgh (Holy Trinity Metropolitan Community Church ) met as a congregation of Metropolitan Community Church from 1995 to 2009. The church has now ceased worshipping independently and has merged with Augustine United Church, which meets at 11am, each Sunday.Metropolitan Community Church is a worldwide Christian denomination founded in 1968 to have a special, affirming ministry with the lesbia... ... Read more

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The revival of interest in historical Western martial arts has focused a great deal of attention on the weapons of Scotland, especially of the Highlanders. Yet, despite all this enthusiasm for the martial arts of the Highland, few of those practicing have experienced genuine Gaelic culture - and without a cultural context, no practice of martial arts can be considered complete.Highland Martial Culture examines the nature of the Gaelic warrior class and its martial training; the Gaelic duel and how it differed from the duel in continental Europe; the phenomenon of wandering swordsmen in Highland society; the Highland conception of honor; internal aspects of martial arts practice such as mental tricks, traditional charms and spells used in warfare; unusual skills such as the fast draw; and health practices associated with the warrior class.This is your chance to find out more about the rich cultural heritage associated with the practice of Highland weapons. ... Read more