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This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.

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Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Editions and Abbreviations; Introduction, Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch; 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism, Roderick Watson; 2. MacDiarmid's Language, Dorian Grieve; 3. C. M. Grieve / Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist, Alan Riach; 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus, Margery Palmer McCulloch and Kirsten Matthews; 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment, Scott Lyall; 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology, Louisa Gairn; 7.The Use of Science in MacDiarmid's Later Poetry, Michael H. Whitworth; 8. Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation, Carla Sassi; 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona, David Goldie; 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid, Jeffrey Skoblow; 11. MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 16/05/2011
      ISBN13: 9780748641901, 978-0748641901
      ISBN10: 0748641904
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics.

      Table of Contents
      Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Hugh MacDiarmid; Editions and Abbreviations; Introduction, Scott Lyall and Margery Palmer McCulloch; 1. MacDiarmid and International Modernism, Roderick Watson; 2. MacDiarmid's Language, Dorian Grieve; 3. C. M. Grieve / Hugh MacDiarmid, Editor and Essayist, Alan Riach; 4. Transcending the Thistle in A Drunk Man and Cencrastus, Margery Palmer McCulloch and Kirsten Matthews; 5. MacDiarmid, Communism and the Poetry of Commitment, Scott Lyall; 6. MacDiarmid and Ecology, Louisa Gairn; 7.The Use of Science in MacDiarmid's Later Poetry, Michael H. Whitworth; 8. Hugh MacDiarmid's (Un)making of the Modern Scottish Nation, Carla Sassi; 9. Hugh MacDiarmid: The Impossible Persona, David Goldie; 10. Transatlantic MacDiarmid, Jeffrey Skoblow; 11. MacDiarmid's Ambitions, Legacy and Reputation, Margery Palmer McCulloch; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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