“To exult and sing out” Stevenson’s Song and the Song of a Divergent Scotland: Ronald Frame’s The Lantern Bearers
The Lantern Bearers is the title of both an essay by Robert Louis Stevenson and a novel written more than a century later by Ronald Frame. Frame’s narrator, Neil Pritchard, is one of the leading authorities on the late Scottish composer Euan Bone and in the newly devolved Scotland’s “rushed search t...
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| 出版年: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises, |
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| フォーマット: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 言語: | Anglais |
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Études écossaises
2013
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | The Lantern Bearers is the title of both an essay by Robert Louis Stevenson and a novel written more than a century later by Ronald Frame. Frame’s narrator, Neil Pritchard, is one of the leading authorities on the late Scottish composer Euan Bone and in the newly devolved Scotland’s “rushed search to find heroes”, he is asked to write a biography of the composer that would celebrate both the man and his native country. But what we are given to read, instead of this biography, is Pritchard’s confession of the way he betrayed Bone and stole his musical adaptation of Stevenson’s essay. This paper focuses on the interplay between the two works as well as the notion of a Scottish artistic canon and its potential evolution. |
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