The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid / / Scott Lyall, Margery Palmer McCulloch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lyall, Scott,; Palmer McCulloch, Margery,
• MitwirkendeR: Gairn, Louisa,; Goldie, David,; Grieve, Dorian,; Lyall, Scott,; Matthews, Kirsten,; Palmer McCulloch, Margery,; Riach, Alan,; Sassi, Carla,; Skoblow, Jeffrey,; Watson, Roderick,; Whitworth, Michael H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.Key FeaturesLinks MacDiarmid's work and influence to recent writings on national identity, transnationalism, postcolonialism and modernity versus traditionProvides close readings of the formal detail of texts and new readings in ecological and science-based contextsContributes to a re-drawing of the map of literary modernismContributors include Louisa Gairn (Helsinki), Alan Riach (Glasgow University), Carla Sassi (Verona University), Jeffrey Skoblow (Southern Illinois University), and Michael H. Whitworth (Oxford University).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Notes -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid -- Introduction -- 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism -- MacDiarmid’s Language -- 3. C. M. Grieve/Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist -- 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus -- 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment -- 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology -- 7. The Use of Science in MacDiarmid’s Later Poetry -- 8. Hugh MacDiarmid’s (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation -- 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona -- 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid -- 11. MacDiarmid’s Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation -- Endnotes -- Further Reading -- Notes on Contributors -- Index