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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777930403321

Autore

McCulloch Margery Palmer

Titolo

Scottish modernism and its contexts, 1918-1959 : literature, national identity and cultural exchange / / Margery Palmer McCulloch [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5190-X

1-282-13650-X

9786612136504

0-7486-3475-4

Descrizione fisica

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

Disciplina

820.9941109041

Soggetti

Scottish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Scotland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.