The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid

• Main Authors: Lyall, Scott, Palmer McCulloch, Margery
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 16.05.2011; EUP
• Edition: 1
• Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature
• Subjects: 1892-1978; 20th century; Civilization; Criticism and interpretation; Language & Literature; MacDiarmid, Hugh; Poets, Scottish; Scotland
• ISBN: 0748641904; 9780748641901; 9780748641895; 0748641890
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748646333

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 asA Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle,To Circumjack CencrastusandIn 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 inAnnals of the Five Senses, the autobiographicalLucky 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 modernism Contributors include Louisa Gairn (Helsinki), Alan Riach (Glasgow University), Carla Sassi (Verona University), Jeffrey Skoblow (Southern Illinois University), and Michael H. Whitworth (Oxford University).