Dr Scott Lyall S.Lyall@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Scott Lyall S.Lyall@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Scott Lyall S.Lyall@napier.ac.uk
Editor
This chapter suggests two main related points. The overarching contention is that Hugh MacDiarmid was a poetic, political, polemical, and metaphysical impossibilist (rather than merely the extremist of caricature). More particularly, in an attempt to escape the impossible community of the Kailyard – provincial, retrogressive, Christian, Scotland-as-Brigadoon – MacDiarmid fashioned an equally impossible if conflicting community, profoundly singular yet ultimately spiritual, that nonetheless contained residual Kailyard archetypes. The argument is traced through examination of MacDiarmid’s attitude to the Kailyard; work relating to the small communities in which he lived and wrote, and to cities; and the question of his anti-Englishness.
Lyall, S. (2016). Hugh MacDiarmid’s Impossible Community. In S. Lyall (Ed.), Community in Modern Scottish Literature (82-102). Brill Academic Publishers
Publication Date | 2016-05 |
---|---|
Deposit Date | May 20, 2016 |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Pages | 82-102 |
Book Title | Community in Modern Scottish Literature |
ISBN | 9789004317444 |
Keywords | Hugh McDiarmid; community; Scottish literature; Scottish politics; Kailyard; anti-Englishness; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/10246 |
Community in Modern Scottish Literature
(2016)
Book
'A "vigilance society for Scottish culture": The Saltire Society and the Scottish Literary Renaissance'.
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scottish Scene and the ‘Condition of Scotland’ Question
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
“The matter of Scotland”: Gray and MacDiarmid
(2025)
Book Chapter
To ‘Irradiate the Common’: Nan Shepherd and the Scottish Literary Renaissance
(2024)
Book Chapter
About Edinburgh Napier Research Repository
Administrator e-mail: repository@napier.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2025
Advanced Search