Scottish Culture: Dialogue and Self-Expression

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Aniela Korzeniowska and Izabela Szymańska
Introduction: Scotland in Dialogue - Dialogue on Scotland

Part I. In Dialogue: Interrelations, Influences, Inspirations

Monika Kocot
Dialogic Imagination: Edwin Morgan and Russian Modernism. Beyond Sense Through Laughter

Jerzy Jarniewicz
“Too many lily‐white Annunciations.” Scotland’s Favourite Paintings by Scotland’s Favourite Poet

Monika Szuba
“That essentially Scottish virtue of openness.” Literary and Philosophical References in John Burnside’s Poetry

Katarzyna Pisarska
Scots in the Pacific: The Imaginary Islands of John Macmillan Brown

Andrzej Weseliński
Narratives of Empire: John Grierson and the British Documentary Movement

Magdalena Charzyńska‐Wójcik
Going Dutch on the Scottish borders... of the Psalter

Part II. Cultural Exchanges: Translating, Adapting, Staging

Susanne Hagemann
Scott in Germany: Two Early Translations of Rob Roy

Jorge Bastos da Silva
Scott’s Ivanhoe in Portuguese Romanticism: The Case of A. P. Hogan’s Stage Adaptation

Barry Keane
Meritocracy on a Desert Island. The Staging of J. M. Barrie’s The Admirable Crichton in Poland in the Years 1921‐1958

Stewart Sanderson
“Pity then those who feel.” European Tragedy in Scots Translation

Margery Palmer McCulloch
Translating for a Living: The Muirs and German‐Language Literature

Aniela Korzeniowska
From Glue to Klej. How well do Irvine Welsh’s characters travel between languages?

Part III. Self-Expression: Identity, Heritage, Nationalism

Michał Mazurkiewicz
Sport and Nationalism - Some Observations on Scottish Football

Edyta Barucka
An Orkney Tapestry. Some Highlights on the Rich Cultural Heritage of the Orkney Islands

Monika Liro
“Underneath, the true face dreams on and the Fable is repeated over and over again.” The Non‐Fictional Writings on Orkney by George Mackay Brown, Edwin Muir, Ernest Marwick and Eric Linklater

Radomir Szewczuk
William McGonagall and the (Non)inclusiveness of Poetry

Dominika Lewandowska‐Rodak
All the Gory Details. The Writings of Agnes Owens

J. Derrick McClure
The Literary Rehabilitation of Macbeth

Part IV. Self-Expression Through Language

Monika Izbaner
Outside the Narrative

Petra Johana Poncarová
“Nuair a Dh’fhalbhas a’ Ghàidhlig” (When Gaelic Goes): Gaelic in the Poetry of Derick Thomson

Mark Ó Fionnáin
Freedom, Real and Unreal, in Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach

Part V. Political Self-Expression: Exploring the Issue of Scottish Independence

Robert L. Hodgart
Scotland’s Sustained Autonomy and Continuing Constitutional Journey - “Getting Less Feart?”

Marion Amblard and Faruk Ülgen
The Monetary Implications of Scottish Independence for Scotland, the United Kingdom and Europe

Krzysztof Winkler
Economic Aspects of the Scottish Independence Referendum

Przemysław Biskup
The Future of UK Devolution after the Scottish Independence Referendum

Part VI. Scotland in Foreign Eyes: Stereotypes and Beyond

Dorota Babilas
The Scots on Broadway: The Uses and Abuses of Scottishness in Brigadoon

Izabela Szymańska
From Novel to Screen. The Vision of Scotland in the 1978 TV Serial Based on Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Agnieszka Piskorska
Humour and the Popular Stereotypes of Scots

Wojciech Lewandowski
SuperScots. Superheroes and Scottish Identity

Aleksandra Budrewicz
“Wordless delight.” Stanisław Bełza’s Journey to Scotland

Name Index