Abstract
Argues that Iain Banks's experimental science fiction, often disguised as the pop-culture genre of “space opera,” changes the frame of reference for Scottishness, linking it with a plurality of fictitious worlds, presenting the gradual erosion, subversion and deconstruction of the anthropomorphic perspective, to reveal the limitations of humanist ideologies.
Recommended Citation
Procházka, Martin
(2017)
"A New Dimension of Scottishness? Iain Banks, The Algebraist (2004),"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 43:
Iss.
2, 185–186.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol43/iss2/3