Kenning what he meant: MacDiarmid afore he deed

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Abstract

One of the most enigmatic aspects of MacDiarmid – the exemplary anti-syzygyial man – is MacDiarmid’s Mature Art, both in terms of his later, vast project of that title, and, too, how this work sits in terms of his career-long development. This chapter attempts to start making some sense of MacDiarmid’s ‘Mature Art’ from the works scattered across his later publications, as well as the National Library of Scotland’s archives, considering not only what re-attaching its separable sections reveals about MacDiarmid, but also how MacDiarmid’s mature art challenges and urges a redefinition of the phenomenon of ‘Late Style’.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023
Subtitle of host publicationvisions and revisions
EditorsCamille Manfredi, Philippe Laplace, Fiona Paterson
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Publication statusSubmitted - 10 Dec 2024

Publication series

NameScottish cultural review of language and literature

Keywords

  • Scottish literature
  • Scotland
  • Literature
  • Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Christopher Murray Grieve
  • Scottish literary renaissance
  • Modernism
  • Late style
  • Tradition
  • Archive
  • Self-reflexivity
  • Metapoetics
  • Poetics

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