Scottish Modernism And Its Contexts 1918 1959
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Author | : Margery Palmer McCulloch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780748634743 |
This book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement. The book demonstrates the international significance of a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context.
Author | : Margery Palmer McCulloch |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748634754 |
This innovative book proposes the expansion of the existing idea of an interwar Scottish Renaissance movement to include its international significance as a Scottish literary modernism interacting with the intellectual and artistic ideas of European modernism as well as responding to the challenges of the Scottish cultural and political context. Topics range from the revitalisation of the Scots vernacular as an avant-garde literary language in the 1920s and the interaction of literature and politics in the 1930s to the fictional re-imagining of the Highlands, the response of women writers to a changing modern world and the manifestations of a late modernism in the 1940s and 1950s. Writers featured include Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Neil M. Gunn, Edwin and Willa Muir, Catherine Carswell, Sydney Goodsir Smith and Sorley MacLean.
Author | : Bénédicte Coste |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2016-10-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317265076 |
Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the modernist credo, ‘Make it New!’, as a desire to break away from the past, the authors of this book suggest reading it as a continuation and a reappropriation of the spirit of the ‘New’ that characterizes Aestheticism. Basing their arguments on recent reassessments of Aestheticism and Modernism and their articulation, contributors take up the challenge of interrogating the connections, continuities, and intersections between the two movements, thus revealing the working processes of cultural and aesthetic change so as to reassess the value of the new for each. Attending to well-known writers such as Waugh, Woolf, Richardson, Eliot, Pound, Ford, Symons, Wilde, and Hopkins, as well as to hitherto neglected figures such as Lucas Malet, L.S. Gibbon, Leonard Woolf, or George Egerton, they revise assumptions about Aestheticism and Modernism and their very definitions. This collection brings together international scholars specializing in Aestheticism or Modernism who push their analyses beyond their strict period of expertise and take both movements into account through exciting approaches that borrow from aesthetics, philosophy, or economics. The volume proposes a corrective to the traditional narratives of the history of Aestheticism and Modernism, revitalizing definitions of these movements and revealing new directions in aestheticist and modernist studies.
Author | : Gerard Carruthers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-12-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521189365 |
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Author | : Margery Palmer McCulloch |
Publisher | : Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"What made the twentieth-century interwar literary renaissance unique among Scottish cultural movements was the belief of those involved that any regeneration of the nation's artistic culture could not be separated from revival in its social, economic and political life. An additional priority was engagement with Europe and with the artistic and intellectual ideas of the modern period. Nationalism, internationalism and modernity were therefore seen as complementary and interactive parts of an ambitious national renewal project." "Modernism and Nationalism: literature and society in Scotland 1918-1939 is an edited collection of primary sources from this challenging period. Through excerpts from periodical articles, book chapters, letters and other documents, it brings us the voices of writers such as MacDiarmid, Gunn, Linklater, Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, the Muirs, Carswells and many others, reviewing and arguing over the literary, social, economic and political issues of their time, both at home and abroad, while in the process offering new insights into the ideas behind their own creative writing. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of interwar Scotland."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Scott Lyall |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2011-05-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748646337 |
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.
Author | : Michael Shaw |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474433987 |
Explores cultural defence and revivalism in Scottish literature and artThe first book-length, interdisciplinary study on fin-de-sicle ScotlandUnlocks Scottish writers' and artists' participation in neo-paganism, the occult revival, neo-Catholicism and japonismeInformed by extensive analysis of under-explored archival materials, such as the Papers of Patrick GeddesRichly illustrated with artworks, photographs and ephemera As the Irish Revival took shape and the Home Rule debate dominated UK politics, what was happening in Scotland? This book reveals distinct but comparable concerns with cultural defence and revivalism in fin-de-sieI cle Scotland, evident in the work of a number of writers and artists including Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Geddes, Fiona Macleod, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Mona Caird, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Duncan and various contributors to The Evergreen. Situating Scottish literature and art alongside international developments in culture, especially the rise of decadence, symbolism and Celticism, Michael Shaw demonstrates the ways in which dissident fin-de-sieI cle styles and ideas supported and defined the Scottish Revival.
Author | : Paul Poplawski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 757 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107141672 |
From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.
Author | : Kate Macdonald |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317319842 |
Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.
Author | : Juliet Shields |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009003054 |
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.