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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Cencrastus
Author: Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid
Author: Scott LyallPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748646337
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 4: Professionalism and Diversity 1880-2000
Author: David FinkelsteinPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628843
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
In this volume a range of distinguished contributors provide an original analysis of the book in Scotland during a period that has been until now greatly under-researched and little understood. The issues covered by this volume include the professionalisation of publishing, its scale, technological developments, the role of the state, including the library service, the institutional structure of the book in Scotland, industrial relations, union activity and organisation, women and the Scottish book, and the economics of publishing. Separate chapters cover Scottish publishing and literary culture, publishing genres, the art of print culture, distribution, and authors and readers. The volume also includes an innovative use of illustrative case studies.
MacDiarmid
Author: Alan BoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000349179
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
First published in 1983, Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is a detailed introduction to the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid. Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry shows a persistent search for a consistent intellectual vision that reveals, in all its facets, the source of creativity recognised by the poet as ‘the terrible crystal’. This introduction to his poetry shows that MacDiarmid’s great achievement was a poetry of evolutionary idealism, that draws attention to itself by a series of culture shocks. It places MacDiarmid as a nationalist poet in an international context: a man whose unique concept of creative unity enabled him to combine the Scottish tradition with the linguistic experimentation of Joyce and Pound. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal is ideal for those with an interest in the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poetry, and poetry and criticism more broadly.
Hugh MacDiarmid, the Poetry of Self
Author: John BaglowPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773505711
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Christopher Grieve, writing under the name of Hugh MacDiarmid, was a major modern poet and founder of the Scottish literary Renaissance. In this study of his poetry, John Baglow eliminates what has been a stumbling block for most MacDiarmid scholars by showing the very real thematic and psycological consistency which underlines MacDiarmid's work. He demonstrates the extent to which the work was dominated by a desire to find a faith that could justify his desire to write poetry, a desire continually thwarted by a critical intellect which destroyed whatever faith he was able to construct. This constant search without a successful conclusion is at the heart of the work of many major modernist writers; MacDiarmid's poetry can be seen as embracing this tradition and making it explicit.
Hugh MacDiarmid
Author: Nancy K. GishPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349056197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Thistle and Rose
Author: Annie BoutellePublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By examining the poems chronologically and sympathetically and by exploring the relationship of language, formal dynamics, image, and theme, this study attempts to discover the essence of MacDiarmid's highly individual contribution to the poetry of this century.
A Companion to Scottish Literature
Author: Gerard CarruthersPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119651530
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.
Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s
Author: Forster Laurel ForsterPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470009
Category : Women's periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 709
Book Description
Foregrounds the diversity of periodicals, fiction and other printed matter targeted at women in the postwar periodForegrounds the diversity and the significance of print cultures for women in the postwar period across periodicals, fiction and other printed matterExamines changes and continuities as women's magazines have moved into digital formatsHighlights the important cultural and political contexts of women's periodicals including the Women's Liberation Movement and SocialismExplores the significance of women as publishers, printers and editorsWomen's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1940s-2000s draws attention to the wide range of postwar print cultures for women. The collection spans domestic, cultural and feminist magazines and extends to ephemera, novels and other printed matter as well as digital magazine formats. The range of essays indicates both the history of publishing for women and the diversity of readers and audiences over the mid-late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century in Britain. The collection reflects in detail the important ways in magazines and printed matter contributed to, challenged, or informed British women's culture. A range of approaches, including interview, textual analysis and industry commentary are employed in order to demonstrate the variety of ways in which the impact of postwar print media may be understood.
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Author: Gregory BakerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108844863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
