Scottish modernism and its contexts, 1918-1959 : literature, national identity and cultural exchange / [electronic resource]
McCulloch, Margery Palmer,author.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-222) and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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.
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.
Scottish literature
Modernism (Literature)