Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023 : Visions and Revisions / edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson, and Philippe Laplace.

Format:

Book

Series:

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Visions and Revisions

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited volume provides a contemporary reappraisal of the work and legacy of Hugh MacDiarmid, presenting new perspectives from an international group of researchers. Addressing pivotal elements of MacDiarmid’s biography, politics, aesthetics and multilingual literary practice, this collection contextualises his writing within current critical discussions and evolving perceptions of modernism, nationalism, and cultural identity. The essays illuminate the complexities and continuities of MacDiarmid’s career, reassessing his contribution to twentieth-century literature and its relevance today. This volume is suitable for scholars, students, and informed readers, and it promotes renewed academic engagement with one of Scotland’s most influential and controversial literary figures.

Contents:

Title Page

Half Title Page

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part 1 Life of a Poet

Hugh MacDiarmid: the Ethics of Excess

A Tiny Screw Loose in the Clever Clock: Trusting Willa Muir on Hugh MacDiarmid

Kenning What He Meant: MacDiarmid Afore He Deed

Highland Hugh in the Empty Glen: MacDiarmid and the Gaelic World

Part 2 Grieve/MacDiarmid's Politics

Borrowing from Bigger Brothers: European Right-Wing Influences on Nascent Scottish Nationalism in the Inter-War Period

Escaping MacDiarmid's Paradox

Hugh MacDiarmid and "the Norm"

Intertextuality, Gender and the Modernist Psyche: a Study of Hugh MacDiarmid's Citational Practice in "The Never-Yet-Explored" (

Part 3 Re-visions

"The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid's Religious Poetry

"Nature Poetry Better Than Wordsworth": an Ecocritical Reading of Hugh MacDiarmid's Poems

"Tam o' the Wilds and the Many-Faced Mystery"

Hugh MacDiarmid's Realist Epic

Part 4 Hugh MacDiarmid and/in Translation

"Hawking His Poems in the Gutter": MacLean, MacDiarmid and Gaelic Translation

MacDiarmid and the Gaelic World: C. M. Grieve, Ruaraidh Erskine and Derick Thomson

From Brownsbank to the West End: Hugh MacDiarmid's Translation of Bertolt Brecht's

Hugh MacDiarmid's Influence in Iceland: Representations in Twentieth-Century Icelandic Media

Affinity, Ideology and Aesthetics: Wang Zuoliang's Chinese Translations of Hugh MacDiarmid

Conclusion

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004762466

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004762466 DOI