Auld Licht Idylls and A Window in Thrums

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Zeticula

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491_9781849211376

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Thrums is the name I give here to the handful of houses jumbled together in a cuprries sketches of Scottish life in a small town in the early nineteenth-century occupy a curious and fascinating place in the history of Scottish literature. Set in his native Kirriemuir, and based on the childhood memories of his mother, Auld Licht Idylls (1888) and A Window in Thrums (1889) have long been misleadingly understood as marking the foundations of the debilitating Kailyard tradition in Scottish fiction. Yet as new and returning readers can now recognise, the subtle mixture of irony, humour and sentiment in Barries presentation of the fringes and remnants (the thrums) of past ways of life produces a much richer and more complex evocation of the themes of memory and nostalgia than has hitherto been perceived. With an extended introduction, which traces Barries process of composition and discusses the literary context of the works, as well as the historical and religious background to the portrayal of the Auld Lichts, readers can appreciate to the full why these two early books by the author of Peter Pan prompted Robert Louis Stevenson to declare Barrie a genius, with the glamour of twilight on his pen.

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