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An Introduction

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ScotlandContrast:romantic/tourist vs.real/hard-boiled(Bell 2008; Paternoster

2012)

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ScottishCities

Contrast (Jekyll & Hyde)Crime story as social document(lvarez Saar 2088)real vs. tourist site

(Leishman 2010, Plain 2002)

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Edinburgh

Ian Rankins Homepage:Rebus Edinburgh:http://www.ianrankin.net/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=146

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Edimburgh: Old & New Town

St.Giles

OldTown

New Townfrom Castle

Group Projects,Craigmillar

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ScottishHistory

1560: ScottishReformation

1603: Union of

Crowns 1707: Act of

Union

1745: Rebellion

of 45.Charles EdwardStuart (1720-88)

kilt Ghillie(gamekeeper)brogue

Sporran(purse)

sgian-dubh Hose &

garter

dirk

Tartansash

Tam oShanterwithbadge/feather

The Order of

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Scottish

History c. 1760s/80s-1820s/40s: First

Industrial Revolution (only somee.g. Scottish inventions)

Adam Smith The Wealth ofNations (1776)

James Watt : Steam Engine (1781)

John McAdam: macadamised

roads (basis for tarmac, 1816) Kirkpatrick Macmillan and

Thomas McCall: Pedal bicycle(1839)

Coal, steel, shipbuilding

Empire

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

Walter Scott (1771-1832)Victoria (Balmoral,

1856). Neo-Gothic

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More recent issues

1979 Referendum(devolution) SNP

Do you want the provisionsof the Scotland Act 1978 tobe put into effect ?

Deindustrialization(Thatcher 1979-1990)

North Sea Oil and Gas

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ContemporaryIssues

1997: ReferendumDevolution =

Scottish Parliamenthttp://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-03000.pdf

Post- devolution (Plain2002)

Post-industrial

(Leishman 2010)

Social dysfunction &corruption (Clandfield & Lloyd

2007)http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=emw38tQ_DwoC&pg=PA126&lpg=PA126&dq=Clandfield+and+lloyd+ian+rankin&source=bl&ots=_KwwZ84F6e&sig=XbBH0CBvMTfj9YvP-v0F1-ph8yQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2LwPUfaiJo7c8wTToIHIBg&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Clandfield%20and%20lloyd%20ian%20rankin&f=false

Globalization of crime

Scottish independence

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Scottish

traits SELF-PERCEIVED SCOTSTRAITS(LINDSAY1979)

Friendly/Warm/Kind-hearted

Patriotic/Nationalistic/Proud

Humourous/Good Fun

Direct/Down to Earth

Low Self-Esteem Aggressive/Paranoid

Honest/Unpretentious

Political/Socialist/Anti-Tory

Rough, dour

Drinking & thrift:http://www.scotlandvacations.com/JokesPage1.htm

Callum decided to call his father-in-law the "Exorcist" because every timehe came to visit he made the spirits

disappear A farmer's wife, who was rather

stingy with her whisky, was givingher shepherd a drink. As she handedhim his glass, she said it was extragood whisky, being fourteen years

old. "Weel, mistress," said theshepherd regarding his glasssorrowfully, "It's very small for itsage.

Sex: Why do Scotsmen wear kilts? Sothe sheep won't hear the zipper.

Soccer: An English silver experttravelling in Scotland was asked if hewould like to look at the trophies wonby the Scottish national soccer team.He replied that he wasn't interested inantiques. http://www.digital-

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Scottish Society

DIET

The average Scottish diet is low incereals, vegetables and fruit but highin confectionery, fatty meat products,

sweet and salty snacks, cakes, and

excessive amounts of sugary drinks

and alcohol.http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/the_footprint_of_scotlands_diet.pdf

Good Scottish food: porridge,shellfish and smokies; salmon, cod,heather honey, raspberries, lamb,beef, venison, and game and meatpies

LANGUAGE

Scots = Gaelic & form of NorthernEnglish (Scandinavian influences)

used in Scotland.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cENbkHS3mnY(lecture)

Scots became Anglicizised (OCEL)

1. Hame = home2. Hoose = house

3. Baw = ball4. Loch /x/ voiceless velar fricative5. Nicht /xt/6. Tapped /r/

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Tartan Noir

Coined by James Ellroy (b.1948) L.A. Quartet (The BlackDahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A.

Confidential, White Jazz). Ian Rankin "The

progenitorand kingof tartan noir." (Let It

Bleed, 1996).

(Donaldson, 2012)http://www.list.co.uk/article/46468-tartan-noir-an-a-to-z-of-scottish-crime-writing/ )

Crime Culturehttp://www.crimeculture.com/21stC/interviews

2011/len_wanner.html (quote, right)

"Tartan Noir well, theres notradition of crime fiction in Scotlandbut there is a great tradition of quitedark, psychological, Gothic horror

stories. Specifically in the 70s, I think

in Glasgow, there was a movetowards a kind of realistic school ofwriting about working class life,

writing about hard men, writing

about hard lives, and writing about

urban experience. So it was a moveaway from the romanticised view

of Scotland. I think crime fictiontapped into that very nicely, andbecause there was no tradition ofcrime fiction in Scotland it meant a

completely level playing field.

Nobody had to be worried aboutwriting in a certain tradition, andmost of us werent influenced by theEnglish. (Rankin 2011)

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Tartan Noir:

OriginsThere is a quote about the weather in Scotlandbeing so bad that people envy the deadWere

just going into autumn and the growingrealisation that months and months of darkness

lie ahead. A lack of sunshine definitely workson the psyche. And you get a lot of work done,which is maybe where the storytelling comesfrom. (Louise Welsh, wrote The Cutting Room).Scottish writers are more concerned with whysomeone did the crime, as opposed to who didit We are attracted to why people are deviant.That makes us good at dark stories. (DeniseMina, wrote Still Midnight)Scotland has the second-highest murder rate inEurope (second only to Finlandhttp://www.mulhollandbooks.com/2011/09/08/the-past-present-

and-future-of-tartan-noir/

Literary heritage:

Robert Louis Stevensons fascinationwith gothic Edinburgh, The Strange Caseof Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

James Hoggs spooky Private Memoirs

and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

National love of old tales of terror (storyof Burke and Hare, murderers who soldbodies to Edinburghs anatomists).

Sherlock Holmes mysteries (youngConan Doyle studied medicine in

Edinburgh). Forerunner William McIlvanney

Laidlaw (1977)

There is a duality in Scotland:respectable people harbouring deepdark secrets; truth and justice alongside

a wonderful vein of criminality. If youhave a literary heritage that includessuch great characters as Jekyll, Hyde itis not surprising that writers might pickup on some of that. (Gill Plain)

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7/29/2019 Tartan Noir Intro

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Tartan NoirUS hard-boiled Tartan Noir US hard-boiled +

procedural Rebus = more hard-boiled than

Marlowe (Paternoster 2012) Tartan noir = dark (Leishman 2010)

1. devoid or partially devoid of light(room/glasses)

2. wholly or partially black(clothing)

3. arisingfrom or showingevil traitsor desires (powers )

4. dismal, gloomy (view of thefuture)

5. relating to grim or depressingcircumstances (humor)

6. secret (keep plans dark)

Dim, gloomy, obscure, sombre

Putting the Black intoTartan Noir (Clandfield2005)

http://books.google.com.ar/books?id=9vNCksDj2WsC&pg=PA235&lpg=PA235&dq=Peter+Clandfield+put+black+back+into+tartan+noir+Race+and+religion+in+the+postcolonial+British+detective+story,&source=bl&ots=xMDgXi54ry&sig=WewLhHHU_NV8mymVcwevWWlPu-s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9PQPUdT7OoLK9gSXz4GgDQ&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Peter%20Clandfield%20put%20black%20back%20into%20tartan%20noir%20Race%20an

d%20religion%20in%20the%20postcolonial%20British%20detective%20story%2C&f=false

Denise Mina

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