Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Literature against Amnesia....Pages 13-33
‘Part of a Part Which was Once the Whole’: Mephistopheles and the Author-figure in Lanark and Fleck....Pages 34-46
Figures of Creation in Alasdair Gray’s ‘Prometheus’....Pages 47-59
Damnation and Hell. Introduction to Versions of Goethe’s Faust, Dante’s Inferno....Pages 60-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The ‘Settlers and Colonists’ Affair....Pages 73-104
A Subversive View of Scotland in the ‘Now Plays’....Pages 105-117
Spiraliform Narratives and the Question of Identity in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark and 1982, Janine....Pages 118-131
Having the Last Word: Paratextual Framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and ‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ to Old Men in Love (2007)....Pages 132-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The Literary Vision or How to Make Things Seen....Pages 151-168
The Alasdair Gray Foundation: The Importance of a Visual and Literary Archive....Pages 169-180
Itching Etchings: Fooling the Eye or An Anatomy of Gray’s Optical Illusions and Intermedial Apparatus....Pages 181-203
Conclusion: Nae New Ideas, Nae Worries! Alasdair Gray 2008–2012....Pages 204-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-223