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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewWhat makes McCulloch's book most valuable for Modernists... is not a new theory of Modernism but an astute analysis of the ways Scottish Modernists developed distinct, if parallel, techniques with culturally specific materials and sources. She manages this massive project through sustained argument for innovation and experimental technique joined with summary, commentary and interpretation of authors whose work has been left out of accounts of 'British' Modernism and often even Scottish criticism. The result is a major challenge to traditional analyses of Modernism and a significant intervention in the 'New Modernism' of the past decade. Review of English Studies What makes McCulloch's book most valuable for Modernists... is not a new theory of Modernism but an astute analysis of the ways Scottish Modernists developed distinct, if parallel, techniques with culturally specific materials and sources. She manages this massive project through sustained argument for innovation and experimental technique joined with summary, commentary and interpretation of authors whose work has been left out of accounts of 'British' Modernism and often even Scottish criticism. The result is a major challenge to traditional analyses of Modernism and a significant intervention in the 'New Modernism' of the past decade.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernism and Scottish Modernism; TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS; 1 Towards a Scottish Modernism: C. M. Grieve, Little Magazines and the Movement for Renewal; 2 Hugh MacDiarmid and Modernist Poetry in Scots; 3 Criticism and New Writing in English; 4 Beyond This Limit: Women, Modernism and the Modern World; IDEOLOGY AND LITERATURE; 5 Whither Scotland? Politics and Society between the Wars; 6 Neil M. Gunn: Re-Imagining the Highlands; 7 Modernism and Litterature Engagee: A Scots Quair and City Fiction; 8 Poetry and Politics; WORLD WAR TWO AND ITS AFTERMATH; 9 Visionaries and Revisionaries: Late Muir and MacDiarmid; 10 Continuities and New Voices; Bibliography; Index
