[en] As in many other avant-garde contexts in the early years of the twentieth century, little magazines were at the forefront of the modern—and modernist—Scottish literary revival initiated by the poet Hugh MacDiarmid in the years immediately after World War One, as he challenged existing outworn traditions and sought to remove Scotland and its culture from the subservient status of a provincial "North Britain". While the originating phase of this modernist attempt to redirect the course of Scottish literary (and wider) culture had come to an end by the time of the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, a second phase, again led by little magazines, started up in the early 1940s and lasted into the next decade. The publisher William Maclellan of Glasgow was a key figure here, and as with the earlier MacDiarmid movement, this new phase of renewal was poetry-led by magazines such as Million, Poetry Scotland, and Scottish Art and Letters, which also had a strong visual art input as a result of the involvement of the painter J. D. Fergusson.This proposed paper will therefore explore the interaction between the new poetic voices and their ideological positions in these second-phase magazines and the continuities with the previous MacDiarmid-led revival which still inspired them, despite their differences. The effects of wartime conditions on the production and reception of such little magazines, and the relationship between the magazines and other new work being published in the war years and immediate post-war period will also be considered. Through examination of the extent to which a new generation of writers (and their readers) either followed or departed from the earlier movement's prescription for renewal, the paper will ultimately attempt to evaluate the legacy of the interwar modernist revival and the extent to which MacDiarmid and his fellow reformers succeeded in transforming pre-1918 cultural expectations, and, consequently, in writing a new chapter in Scotland's literary and political history.

[fr] Les " petites revues " étaient au centre de la renaissance littéraire moderniste mise en mouvement par le poète Hugh MacDiarmid dans l'Écosse de l'entre-deux-guerres, appelée communément " La renaissance écossaise ". Ces revues participaient pleinement aux débats sur l'identité linguistique, culturelle et politique du pays. Deux décennies plus tard, vers le début de la deuxième guerre mondiale, il existait encore de petites revues littéraires en Écosse, notamment celles publiées par William Maclellan. Ces revues n'étaient pas aussi engagées que celles de MacDiarmid, mais elles aussi contribuaient à leur manière aux débats littéraires et culturels de leur époque. Cet article s'intéresse à ces deux moments de l'histoire écossaise, ce qui permet d'analyser l'héritage du premier mouvement et les phénomènes de continuité, quoique parfois contrastants ou partiels, qui en résultent. Nous nous intéressons également à l'arrivée de nouveaux écrivains qui admiraient ce que MacDiarmid avait pu accomplir, mais qui voulaient surtout innover à leur tour. L'article conclue que les petites revues des années 1940 et 1950, ainsi que les jeunes écrivains qui ont été encouragés par ces dernières, ont ouvert la voie vers la littérature innovante et confiante qu'existe aujourd'hui en Écosse.