"And the Land Lay Still"- Worldmaking, Topography and the Modern Scots Novel

• Thesis title in Czech: "A zem byla klidná"- světotvorba a topografie v moderním skotském románu
• Thesis title in English: "And the Land Lay Still"- Worldmaking, Topography and the Modern Scots Novel
• Key words: topografie|světotvorba|identita|reteritorializace|současný skotský roman
• English key words: topography|worldmaking|contemporary Scottish novel|reterritorialization|identity
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2015/2016
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Supervisor: Colin Steele Clark, M.A.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 18.05.2016
• Date of assignment: 18.05.2016
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 16.08.2017
• Date and time of defence: 11.09.2017 00:00
• Date of electronic submission: 16.08.2017
• Date of proceeded defence: 11.09.2017
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: PhDr. Zdeněk Beran, Ph.D.

Guidelines

Landscapes, urban and rural, are a commitment to the project of reterritorialization currently in progress in the modern Scots novel. Imagination and fictional rendering of the landscape is a form of speculate worldmaking and reflects, satirizes and debates the social and political dispensation of the nation. The texts under consideration here all deploy the Scottish social and topographical panorama in a unique manner, which results in the literary representation of multiple literary versions of Scotland that often coexist together. This thesis traces the development of this thematic concern in the modern Scots novel since the 1980s through the analysis of the works of three novels by key Scottish writers. The first is Alasdair Gray’s Lanark, the second Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breating, and finally Ian (M.) Banks’ The Crow Road. After the analysis of the different employment of topography in the process of worldmaking in the aforementioned novels, this thesis will explore the political and social implications of those approaches and will speculate upon the directions the modern Scots novel may be moving in as a result.

References

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