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Scotnote 3

George Douglas Brown’s
THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS

Iain Crichton Smith

Published in: Paperback.
By: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 1988
Price: £5.95
ISBN 978-0-948877-03-2

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The House with the Green Shutters is a dark, provocative novel, shining a harsh and unforgiving light into the inner recesses of small-town Scotland at the turn of the last century. Written as a response to social change, and as an antidote to the sentimentality of the ‘Kailyard’ school, the author called it “a brutal and bloody work” – although a thread of sly humour runs through the book as well.

Iain Crichton Smith’s Scotnote explores this post-romantic masterpiece through a precise analysis of themes, characters, structure and language, and is ideal for senior school pupils and students.

CONTENTS

  • Summary
  • The life of George Douglas Brown
  • Characterisation
  • Structure
  • Language
  • An estimate of the novel
  • Notes
  • For further study
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary

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Retrieving and Renewing: a poem for ASL

   Forget your literature? – forget your soul.
   If you want to see your country hale and whole
   Turn back the pages of fourteen hundred years.
   Surely not? Oh yes, did you expect woad and spears?
   In Altus Prosator the bristly blustery land
   Bursts in buzz and fouth within a grand
   Music of metrical thought. Breathes there the man
   With soul so dead—? Probably! But a scan
   Would show his fault was ignorance:
   Don’t follow him. Cosmic circumstance
   Hides in nearest, most ordinary things.
   Find Scotland – find inalienable springs.
  Edwin Morgan, 2004

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