Lewis Grassic Gibbon and history: the shameless stone of sisyphus

dc.contributor.author	Valdés Miyares, Julio Rubén
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-04T11:31:33Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-04T11:31:33Z
dc.date.issued	1994
dc.identifier.citation	Miscelánea: A journal of English and American studies, 15, p. 533-554 (1994)
dc.identifier.issn	1137-6368
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10651/27188
dc.description.abstract	This article is a cultural study of the writer James Leslie Mitchell / Lewis Grassic Gibbon in his historical context, the early 1930s in Scotland. It analyses especially his novels The Thirteenth Disciple, Spartacues and A Scots Quair, and their critique of the workings of ideology, its relation to faith in humanity, and its distortion of the radicalism necessary to change a sick world. A crucial image in his materialist approach to culture and politics bears a significant resemblance to the existentialist angst in Camus's Mythe de Sisyphe: it is the rock of creative faith that falls back on violent ideology every time a courageous Sisyphus tops a hill of History.
dc.format.extent	p. 533-554
dc.language.iso	spa
dc.publisher	Universidad de Zaragoza
dc.relation.ispartof	Miscelánea: A journal of English and American studies
dc.rights	© Universidad de Zaragoza
dc.title	Lewis Grassic Gibbon and history: the shameless stone of sisyphus
dc.type	journal article
dc.rights.accessRights	open access