AHHHRRRMMMM! Banks? Glasgow? The boy's from North Queensferry. Just ayont
Embro's smoky embrace.
The stuff about port cities in the Melbourne synopsis looks like a big red
herring. Trawlers in dock? If he's going to develop ideas about local
self-images being generated through relationships with the world beyond
forged by sea and then fed back into dry-land discourse and subverted
through the liminality of crime, he'll need more than half an hour I should
think.
P
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> Subject: Re: Melbourne discusses the Scots
>
> Today Melbourne, tomorrow the world.
>
> Does anyone younger than me still read William McIlvanney?
> My son reads Rankin obsessively.
>
> Edinburgh may currently be the Queen of Crime, but Glasgow
> wins hands-down in the SF stakes -- Banks, McLeod, and Boyce.
>
> Robin
>
> (Will you be attending, Max? Any chance of a report? I'd
> nip over, but I've misplaced my swimming trunks. R.)
>
> > The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh (and the latter's
> immediate port,
> > Leith) have a long history of rivalry and conflict which
> dates back
> > well before the seventeenth century. This paper aims to
> analyse these
> > conflicts and their respective futures by way of readings of the
> > novels of two Scottish crime fiction writers, Ian Rankin
> and William
> > Mcilvanney, as seen through the eyes of their central
> characters, John
> > Rebus and Jack Laidlaw in an attempt to answer the
> question, where is,
> > if any, the common ground between the two, past, present and future.
>
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