By Ian Brown, Alan Riach
This quantity considers the key issues, texts and authors of Scottish literature of the 20th and, thus far, twenty-first century. It identifies the contexts and impulses that led Scottish writers to undertake their inventive literary recommendations. relocating past conventional classifications, it attracts at the most modern severe techniques to open up new views on Scottish literature due to the fact 1900. The volume's leading edge thematic constitution guarantees that an important texts or authors are noticeable from varied views no matter if within the context of empire, renaissance, conflict and post-war, literary style, new release, and resistance. for you to supply thorough assurance, those thematic chapters are complemented by means of chronological 'Arcade' chapters, which define the contexts of the literature of the interval through many years, and by way of 'Overview' chapters which hint advancements around the century in theatre, language and Gaelic literature. Taken jointly, the chapters offer an intensive and thought-provoking account of the century's literature.
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The perversion of that wood to witchcraft by Presbyterian fanatics and its eventual destruction in a more material age symbolise the exhaustion of the native spirit of Scotland. The death and exile respectively of its last hero and heroine, Montrose and Katrine Yester, lead to the conclusion of the hero David Sempill, that ‘all roads are the same for us that lead forth of this waesome land’: exile and displacement are the future of Scotland. Montrose is a Year King of Frazerian kind, while Katrine Yester is, like Adam Melfort, a Christ-figure.
To expand Britain’s small Regular Army Lord Kitchener, Secretary for War, called for the creation of a huge ‘New Army’ of volunteers; the response in Scotland, as elsewhere, was enthusiastic. 7 million men serving in the army during the war. Of this, 320,589 (13 per cent) were Scots. By the war’s end, the number of Scots in the armed forces was 688,416: 71,707 in the Royal Navy, 584,098 in the Army (Regular, New and Territorial) and 32,611 in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force. Culture too was affected: although it would take time for the effects to be felt, literature in Scotland was transformed by experience of World War One.
The years before World War One also saw a revival of verse in the vernacular. Much was coy and guileless, but notable exceptions were written in spoken Scots’ natural idioms. John Buchan (1875–1940) vigorously criticised the Kailyard school and, on becoming editor of the Scottish Review in 1907, told Lord Rosebery its aim was ‘to deal with all interests, literary, political and social, with something Scottish in the point of view. 4 l it er a tu re a n d w o rld wa r o n e 39 Better known to most readers was the poetry of Charles Murray (1864–1941), a poet from the north-east of Scotland who continued to write in the vernacular despite emigration to South Africa.