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Reading Scotland – via JGU Scotland Hub, Mainz

Christine Weil looks at characterisation & symbolism in Neil Gunn’s three historical novels – SUN CIRCLE, BUTCHER’S BROOM, & THE SILVER DARLINGS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_ZNIiZeoE

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Reading Scotland with Christine Weil

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“Neil Gunn: Light in the North” (film, 1972), via the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive

George Bruce interviews the author about his life & work

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https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/0589

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The Ecology of Place in Neil Gunn’s Highland River & Nishida Kitarō’s basho

Michael Gardiner, Scottish Literary Review 16.2, 2024 – reading Scottish & Japanese understandings of basho (place) as responses to the British empire in particular

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https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/945000

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“What stays in the mind after reading HIGHLAND RIVER are its luminous depictions of moments of joy”

—Robert P. Irvine looks at Neil M. Gunn’s most personal & most formally adventurous novel

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https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-neil-m-gunns-highland-river/

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B-Sides: Neil M. Gunn’s “Highland River” - Public Books

Freud taught that childhoods shape our adult selves with unresolved trauma. But this novel shows that childhood joy can shape adulthood, too.

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“The understated power of this writing is extraordinary. Something of that sense of human vision seeing beyond the time of its own life’s duration, surely appealed to T. S. Eliot, who published The Silver Darlings and more of Gunn’s novels”
—Prof Alan Riach re-examines Gunn’s legacy

Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973), one of the most important writers of the 20th century Scottish renaissance, was born #OTD, 8 Nov – a 🎂 🧵

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/15637617.neil-gunn-and-the-search-for-scotlands-soul/

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