Scottish modernism and its contexts 1918-1959 : literature, national identity and cultural exchange / Margery Palmer McCulloch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCulloch, Margery Palmer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scottish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Scottish literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Scotland.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Transforming traditions. Towards a Scottish modernism : C.M. Grieve, little magazines and the movement for renewal ; Hugh MacDiarmid and modernist poetry in Scots ; Criticism and new writing in English ; Beyond this limit : women, modernism and the modern world

Ideology and literature. Whither Scotland? : politics and society between the wars ; Neil M. Gunn : re-imagining the Highlands ; Modernism and littérature engagéee : A Scots quair and city fiction ; Poetry and politics

World War Two and its aftermath. visionaries and revisionaries : late Muir and MacDiarmid ; continuities and new voices.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5190-X

1-282-13650-X

9786612136504

0-7486-3475-4

OCLC:

430842974