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Informationen zum Autor Scott Lyall is Lecturer in Modern Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, having taught previously at Trinity College, Dublin, and Exeter University. His Hugh MacDiarmid's Poetry and Politics of Place: Imagining a Scottish Republic was published by EUP in 2006. Klappentext This is the first full-length study of the politics of Hugh MacDiarmid, one of modern Scotland's major cultural figures. By examining those places in Scotland that inspired MacDiarmid's best poetry, Lyall shows how the poet's politics evolved from his interaction with the nation and how he sought to imagine a new Scottish future. Zusammenfassung The only book on Hugh MacDiarmid currently in print, this gives unique focus to the politics of modern Scotland’s major cultural figure. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Map; Introduction: Imagining a Scottish Republic; 1. 'Towards a New Scotland': Selfhood, History, and the Scottish Renaissance; 2. Debatable Land; 3. 'A Disgrace to the Community'; 4. At The Edge of the World; 5. 'Ootward Boond Frae Scotland': MacDiarmid, Modernism, and the Masses; Index.
