| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) |
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Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature |
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Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and Notes; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE MacDiarmid and International Modernism; CHAPTER TWO MacDiarmid's Language; CHAPTER THREE C.M. Grieve/Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist; CHAPTER FOUR Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus; CHAPTER FIVE MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment; CHAPTER SIX MacDiarmid and Ecology; CHAPTER SEVEN The Use of Science in Hugh MacDiarmid's Later Poetry; CHAPTER EIGHT Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation |
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CHAPTER NINE Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible PersonaCHAPTER TEN Transatlantic MacDiarmid; CHAPTER ELEVEN MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The only full-length companion available to this distinctive and challenging Scottish poet. By using previously uncollected creative and discursive writings, this international group of contributors presents a vital updating of MacDiarmid scholarship. They bring fresh insights to major poems such as A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, To Circumjack Cencrastus and In Memoriam James Joyce, and offer new political, ecological and science-based readings in relation to MacDiarmid's work from the 1930s. They also discuss his experimental short fiction in Annals of the Five Senses, the autobiographical Lucky Poet, and a representative selection of his essays and journalism. They assess MacDiarmid's legacy and reputation in Scotland and beyond, placing his poetry within the context of international modernism. Key Features. Links MacDiarmid's work and influence to recent writings on national identity, transnationalism, postcolonialism and modernity versus tradition Provides close readings of the formal detail of texts and new readings in ecological and science-based contexts Contributes to a re-drawing of the map of literary modernism Contributors include Louisa Gairn (Helsinki), Alan Riach (Glasgow University), Carla Sassi (Verona University), Jeffrey Skoblow (Southern Illinois University), and Michael H. Whitworth (Oxford University) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 fast |
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MacDiarmid, Hugh. swd |
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Scottish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Scottish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Scottish literature
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Scottish poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lyall, Scott.
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McCulloch, Margery Palmer.
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| ISBN |
9780748646333 |
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0748646337 |
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1283221713 |
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9781283221719 |
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9786613221711 |
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6613221716 |
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