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Examines the development of MacDiarmid's aesthetic and political views, in light of decolonial theory and criticism, as showing the 'inexorable and exigent doubling of Scotland with Empire', arguing ... Edinburgh Article 9 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl Alex Thomson Contemporary calls for ‘decolonisation’ invoke a political, historical, and epistemological task of
refers to the musical philosophy of bruitism, described in the 1913 Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises as the incorporation into musical works of sounds traditionally thought to be non-musical, such as ... privilege biographical approaches or interpret MacDiarmid’s poetry as an expression of his various political positions. As with the use of New Critical frameworks, this has established feedback loops between
forms of literary and artistic expression […] have reached in our Western civilisation the point beyond which they can go no further’.40 Spengler’s philosophy of cyclical time appealed to modernists ... not be kept’.46 For Grieve, the apparent failure of that earlier revival to fully apprehend Scotland’s contemporary material and political complexities was all the more reason for a renaissance of
The first article in a two-part series charting the history of Scottish PEN, from its founding in 1927, through political struggles in the 1930s, and at the international congress in Edinburgh in ... , casting light, not only on the international movement for humanity, but also on the writers themselves, on their interactions, and on cultural and political developments within Scottish society. What is
its coastal border with Europe, the intrinsic universality of island experience, defined less by isolation and more by an openness to cultural, linguistic and political connections.2 Experiences that ... (Manchester: Carcanet, 1996), pp. 233-38 (p. 234). 3 Hugh MacDiarmid, Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas (Manchester: Carcanet, [1943] 1994), p. 41. by consideration of the specific
puzzling political and moral landscape of postwar urban life, with Scotland’s largest city 1 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2021–23), The Scottish Revival Network is led by Dr Scott Lyall ... -serviceman’s struggle to readjust to civilian life, they also present an opposition to the political and social conditions that produced the war in the first place, and, as Alan Riach proposes in his
in passing as the proponent of a pessimistic philosophy.36 At some point MacDiarmid acquires a copy of Vere Henry Collins’s Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, published in 1928, the year of Hardy’s ... MacDiarmid is more interested in Hardy’s philosophy than his diction. Not only are both poets working out the consequences of scientific materialism, as discussed by Katherine Maynard, but both are fascinated
the U.K. parliament, and argues that in them McGrugar used print culture to create an alternative political forum to existing political structures. ... Republicanism in the 1790s,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 6 (1998): 235-62. 26 On Scottish patriot responses to the proposed incorporating model of Union, see Bowie, Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo
"timely and important study" R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland: Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), judging it an "inspiring and innovative investigation," and ... Munro, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and Scotland Party, Prose, and Political Aesthetic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Pp. 336. Hardback, £85 [$110]. ISBN 9781474498265. 2 Cedric Watts and
Discusses Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802 etc) in the context of Border history, Scottish legal philosophy, the jurisdictional and cultural concept of the "Debateable Lands," and the ... violent and primitive passions held sway. But the mirroring of the political world in the psychological is more evident in Wordsworth’s Borders than it is in Scott’s literary region. It is Wordsworth who
Examines the works of Ruraidh Erskine of Marr within the context of fin-de-siècle literary and political cultures in Scotland and England, arguing that his journey from conservative unionist to ... messy, political climate in which nationalism was not wholly incompatible with a cosmopolitan world view, or with a commitment to the Union. Erskine havers between supporting Scottish home rule and
AngloAmerican modernism, known to us largely through rehearsals of its formal qualities – precision, refusal of sentimentality and rhetoric, the visual image – rather than through the political entailment of ... momentous social, political and cultural upheaval can be seen as a key motivating factor in the modernist insistence on an equivalently momentous upheaval in aesthetic practice (itself often seen as
Burns's political poems from the 1790s; traces the manuscript's provenance from the Kern sale in 1929 (when it was cataloged as genuine) to Sotheby's in 1982 (when it was cataloged as a forgery), to its ... long stigmatized as a forgery can be shown to be authentic. The “Poetical Inscription” is one of the poems written in the 1790s that show Burns’s continued and quite public commitment to the political
interesting question of possible deliberate anonymity. The poet’s Franco-Scots linguistic agility, and careful play of political interests (Scottish, French and English) are striking, the more so because ... involvements, to placate England, and thus wished to prevent Albany’s return.20 The political instability allowed to flourish in Albany’s absence is behind the tactic the author of “We lordis’ employs at the
adult years at least) but also his long career as a journalist and writer of discursive prose. His tendency to conscript his Scots poems for service in his political battles in support of Scottish ... abstractions of scholastic philosophy, may be translated: ‘The Most Subtle Question, whether a Chimaera bombinating in a vacuum can consume second intentions; as was debated for ten weeks in the Council of
Explores the influence of German Idealist philosophy, specifically Nietzsche and Hegel, in the work of the 20th century Scottish writer David Lindsay (1876-1945), now best-known for his novel A ... which make up his Sketch Notes for a New System of Philosophy, Lindsay indicates his primary concern in note (192), in which he declares the attainment and communication of the Sublime is 1 J.B. Pick
, Mari Manuel Lisboa and Richard Zenith (Manchester: Carcanet, 1995), pp. 214-18 (p. 214). 6 Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve), Lucky Poet: A Self-Study in Literature and Political Ideas ... member of the community, not a political protagonist, but an antagonist ‘whose very antagonisms have their value’: someone who triggers fantastic, oppositional ideas in the minds of others.45 MacDiarmid
Scotland (l986), The Jacobite Song: Political Myth and National Identity (1988) and The Highland Pipe and Scottish Society (2000). Current substantial projects are a history of Scottish song and its links ... English at Old Dominion University, where she teaches historical rhetoric. Her published work includes Scottish Philosophy of Rhetoric (2014) and contributions in Ramus, Pedagogy, and the Liberal Arts, ed
organs. The Scottish Nation is a weekly propagandistic journal. It was heavily political in its inception but has since given way to literature. The Scottish Chapbook is an exclusively literary monthly
Chair of Eloquence, suggesting that because St Andrews kept rhetoric linked to philosophy it was poised for what became a distinctively Scottish use of belles-lettres in rhetorical teaching and theorizing ... considerations were at work in the Scottish rhetoricians’ influence in American colleges.4 The socio-political implications of how English studies developed in Scotland are well documented, but of equal importance
