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Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism
In: Modernist cultures, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 213-235
ISSN: 1753-8629
Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain's main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to think more internationally about their nation and work, a cultural encounter that took place largely in and through translation. Willa and Edwin Muir, who in the early 1920s stayed at educational modernist A. S. Neill's experimental school in Germany, translated German-language modernists such as Kafka and Broch. Hugh MacDiarmid utilised translations of Nietzsche to inform his call for a renascent Scotland. Lewis Grassic Gibbon would write Sunset Song after reading Gustav Frenssen's regional novel Jörn Uhl. Behind this lies the contention that the breakup of world empires, such as the British and Austro-Hungarian, occasioned minor modernisms (to adapt Deleuze and Guattari) such as that in Scotland, and that translation was central to the emergence, impact, and transnationality of the Scottish renaissance movement.
Introduction: 'Tenshillingland': Community and Commerce, Myth and Madness in the Modern Scottish Novel
While 'community' as a concept has come under increasing attack in a neoliberal era, it has remained in Scotland a mythic, though not unexamined, signifier of resistance to perceived threats to national identity. Community, central to the Scottish novel since the Kailyard, continues to be a prevalent theme in the many important novels of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries explored here. Yet, while often disturbingly oppressive in tenor, many of these representations of community actually attack the myth of Scottish communalism to critique, and often expose as forms of madness, the conventional values of social class, capitalism, patriarchy, and religion.
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‘East is West and West is East’: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Quest for Ultimate Cosmopolitanism
In: Scottish Literature and Postcolonial LiteratureComparative Texts and Critical Perspectives, S. 136-146
‘Towards a New Scotland’: Selfhood, History and the Scottish Renaissance
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 23-52
Introduction: Imagining a Scottish Republic
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 1-19
‘Ootward Boond Frae Scotland’: MacDiarmid, Modernism and the Masses
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 151-188
‘A Disgrace to the Community’
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 81-113
Debatable Land
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 56-79
At the Edge of the World
In: Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of PlaceImagining a Scottish Republic, S. 116-146
Genius in a provincial town: MacDiarmid's poetry and politics in Montrose
Explores the ways in which the activities of Christopher Murray Grieve in Montrose, Scotland as a journalist with the "Montrose Review," helped in the finding of poet Hugh MacDiarmid. Examination of MacDiarmid's professional working life; Analysis of MacDiarmid's poetry and its connection with the politics in Montrose; Information on MacDiarmid's modernist manifesto.
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