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Author : Riach Alan Riach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-07
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474471992
A collection of Hugh McDiarmid's poetry
Author : Hugh MacDiarmid,Alan Riach
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0811212483
Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."
Author : David Trotter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674728264
The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they began to fill up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and semi-synthetic materials that were reshaping everyday modern life. New media and new materials gave writers a fresh opportunity to reimagine both how lives might be lived and how literature might be written. Today, such material and immaterial mediations have become even more decisive. Communications technology is an attitude before it is a machine or a set of codes. It is an idea about the prosthetic enhancement of our capacity to communicate. The writers who first woke up to this fact were not postwar, postmodern, or post-anything else: some of the best of them lived and wrote in the British Isles in the period between the World Wars.
Author : Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0811217817
This volume includes the full texts of In Memoriam James Joyce, Three Hymns to Lenin, and The Kind of Poetry I Want. Included are long poems and intense lyrics.
Author : William Calin,William C. Calin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802083654
Calin explores the 20th-century renaissance of literature in the minority languages of Scots, Breton, and Occitan, and demonstrates that all three literatures have evolved in a like manner, repudiating their romantic folk heritage.
Author : Scott Lyall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748646333
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.
Author : Scott Lyall
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630059
By examining at length for the first time those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid to produce his best poetry, Scott Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation, exploring how MacDiarmid discovered a hidden tradition of radical Scottish Republicanism through which he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Adapting postcolonial theory, this book allows readers a fuller understanding not only of MacDiarmid's poetry and politics, but also of international modernism, and the social history of Scottish modernism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004342491
The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever study of Jenkins, described by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in British literature’. It includes essays examining Jenkins’s entire corpus by an established number of experts.
Author : James Acheson,S. Ross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349737178
Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the specially commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists, including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Iain (M.) Banks, Pat Barker, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Janice Galloway, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Graham Swift, Rose Tremain, Marina Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson. Focusing mainly on authors whose first novels have appeared since 1980, the essays provide expert and original analysis of the most recent trends in the theory and practice of contemporary British fiction, and are organized by these 4 major approaches: realism, postcolonialism, feminism and postmodernism.
Author : Edwin Morgan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000622079
C. M. Grieve, or 'Hugh MacDiarmid' as he is best known, has written under both names, and in this he seems to be following a Scottish custom (one could instance 'Lewis Grassic Gibbon') and J. Leslie Mitchell, or 'James Bridie' and O. H. Mavor). But whether two, or more than two identities meet in his work, there is no doubt that he is one of the most far-ranging, original, and remarkable poets of his time. Apart from his natural abilities, and the recognizable quality of his best work, Hugh MacDiarmid has a noted historical importance in Scotland in the double aim he proposed to himself in the 1920s, of reviving and extending the use of Scots into a full medium of expression, and of initiating a new, vigorous, and modern phase of Scottish poetry and (in company with other) of Scottish literature in general. From the startling economy of his early lyrics, through the developed, highly imaginative symbolism of A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, to his later, more provocative experiments in very long 'poems of knowledge', Hugh MacDiarmid has never ceased to explore what is there to be explored - experience, language, ideas, books. If his work is sui generis, it also has considerable variety of appeal, and a depth of challenge to the interested reader.
Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170
Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Author : Joe Moffett
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781638040507
First appearing in the social sciences in the last decade, the New Materialism offers a fresh way of looking at the ways in which humanity views its relationship to the material world. This study picks up on those key insights, analyzing works that challenge the anthropocentric worldview that has defined Western thinking for millennia. Poetry drawn from the period known as Late Modernism (roughly 1930s-1970s) is examined, with particular attention paid to the ways in which the authors anticipate New Materialist perspectives. The authors include influential figures representing various anglophone traditions. Special attention is paid to the long poems of each writer: Hugh MacDiarmid’s “On a Raised Beach,” Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead, David Jones’s The Anathemata, Melvin Tolson’s Harlem Gallery, Louis Zukofsky’s “A,” and Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems. A concluding chapter briefly looks ahead to the persistence of materialist thinking in a key Postmodernist text: Armand Schwerner’s The Tablets. As New Materialism teaches, and these texts demonstrate, a renewed reckoning of humanity’s interaction with the material world can help engender a greater self-awareness that humanity is not the only, or best, measure of the universe.
Author : Kenneth Buthlay
Publisher : Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047785145
Author : W. N. Herbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015029572784
More than Eliot or Pound, the career of Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid reflects the restless nature of the modern age. From his early opposition to poetry in Scots to the triumphant use of dialect in Sangschaw; from these exquisite lyrics to the long dynamic poems A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle and To Circumjack Cencrastus; from the abandonment of Scots to the glacial, 'scientific' English of the unassembled Mature Art - most critics have limited themselves to a single phase of MacDiarmid's career. This study attempts, in his own phrase, to 'circumjack' or 'fully explicate' a troubling but brilliant author. Examining his earliest work, Herbert posits a symbolic structure which governs all MacDiarmid's periods, as well as explaining his need for ceaseless change. MacDiarmid emerges as a modernist of international stature, but also as a radical experimenter whose work anticipates post-modernist concerns.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474403740
Focuses on the novels published since 2000 by twenty major British novelistsThe Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 is divided into five parts, with the first part examining the work of four particularly well-known and highly regarded twenty-first century writers: Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith. It is with reference to each of these novelists in turn that the terms arealist, apostmodernist, ahistorical and apostcolonialist fiction are introduced, while in the remaining four parts, other novelists are discussed and the meaning of the terms amplified. From the start it is emphasised that these terms and others often mean different things to different novelists, and that the complexity of their novels often obliges us to discuss their work with reference to more than one of the terms.Also discusses the works of: Maggie OFarrell, Sarah Hall, A.L. Kennedy, Alan Warner, Ali Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Atkinson, Salman Rushdie, Adam Foulds, Sarah Waters, James Robertson, Mohsin Hamid, Andrea Levy, and Aminatta Forna.