Literary Criticism: Books

The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism, (co-edited with James McGonigal), Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000 Buy this book

The English modernist Bunting receives critical attention from Philip Hobsbaum, Roy Fisher, Gael Turnbull, Harry Gilonis, Parvin Loloi and Glyn Pursglove, Jonathan Williams and others. Many letters by the poet are also published for the first time. As well as co-editing, Price contributes an essay on Bunting and patronage.

"Warm feeling pervades these essays, yet narrowly partisan evaluations are avoided, and this balanced varied collection forms a significant addition to a body of critical work that remains incommensurate to Bunting's achievement... The enthusiasms and discontents, incisive judgements and alert observations found here are in themselves sufficient justification for this book." Julian Cowley, Modern Language Review

La nouvelle alliance: influences francophones sur la littérature écossaise moderne (co-edited with David Kinloch), Grenoble: Ellug, 2000 Buy this book

The topics covered by the various contributors include: Hugh MacDiarmid's debt to Paul Valéry; Proust's influence on Neil Gunn (this is Price's contribution); the relations between Ian Hamilton Finlay and the French Revolution; the translation into Scots of the work of the Quebec dramatist Michel Tremblay; the intertextual contribution of Zola to the work of James Kelman; Frank Kuppner; the career of the Scottish-French poet Kenneth White; and the French presence in recent Scottish fiction including that of Alasdair Gray, Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway and A.L. Kennedy. An appendix provides an extensive list of French translations of Scottish literature published during the 20th century.

The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn, Edinburgh University Press, 1991 Buy this book

An introduction to the novels of Neil M. Gunn.

All texts unless otherwise stated © Richard Price