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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781329303321

Autore

Lyall Scott

Titolo

The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-22171-3

9786613221711

0-7486-4633-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature

Altri autori (Persone)

McCullochMargery Palmer

Disciplina

821.912

Soggetti

English poetry -- 20th century

Poems

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and Notes; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE MacDiarmid and International Modernism; CHAPTER TWO MacDiarmid's Language; CHAPTER THREE C. M. Grieve/Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist; CHAPTER FOUR Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus; CHAPTER FIVE MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment; CHAPTER SIX MacDiarmid and Ecology; CHAPTER SEVEN The Use of Science in Hugh MacDiarmid's Later Poetry; CHAPTER EIGHT Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation

CHAPTER NINE Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible PersonaCHAPTER TEN Transatlantic MacDiarmid; CHAPTER ELEVEN MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910807449403321

Autore

Alfer Alexa <1968->

Titolo

A.S. Byatt : critical storytelling / / Alexa Alfer & Amy Edwards de Campos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013

©2010

ISBN

1-84779-482-3

1-78170-175-X

1-84779-259-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Contemporary British Novelists

Contemporary British novelists

Altri autori (Persone)

Edwards de CamposAmy J

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

Literature

Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

9780719066528; 9780719066528; Copyright Page; Contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Copyright acknowledgements; A. S. Byatt: biographical outline; Abbreviations; Introduction; Fathers, sisters and the anxietyof influence: The Shadow of theSun and The Game; Writing the contemporary:The Virgin in the Garden andStill Life; Two cultures: Babel Tower andA Whistling Woman; Tradition and transformation:Possession and fairytales; The dark side of the tale:The Children's Book,The Biographer's Tale andAngels and Insects; Critical storytelling: peoplingthe paper house; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of Byatt's fictional and non-fictional work. It provides contextualising commentary and devotes an entire chapter to Byatt's role as critic and public intellectual.