Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Issue 2 (May 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Issue 2 (May 2019)
- Main Title:
- Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism
- Authors:
- Lyall, Scott
- Abstract:
- Abstract : Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain's main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to think more internationally about their nation and work, a cultural encounter that took place largely in and through translation. Willa and Edwin Muir, who in the early 1920s stayed at educational modernist A. S. Neill's experimental school in Germany, translated German-language modernists such as Kafka and Broch. Hugh MacDiarmid utilised translations of Nietzsche to inform his call for a renascent Scotland. Lewis Grassic Gibbon would write Sunset Song after reading Gustav Frenssen's regional novel Jörn Uhl . Behind this lies the contention that the breakup of world empires, such as the British and Austro-Hungarian, occasioned minor modernisms (to adapt Deleuze and Guattari) such as that in Scotland, and that translation was central to the emergence, impact, and transnationality of the Scottish renaissance movement.
- Is Part Of:
- Modernist cultures. Volume 14:Issue 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Modernist cultures
- Issue:
- Volume 14:Issue 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 14, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0014-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 213
- Page End:
- 235
- Publication Date:
- 2019-05
- Subjects:
- Scottish modernism -- 'minor' literature -- translation -- Germany -- Edwin Muir -- Willa Muir -- Hugh MacDiarmid -- Lewis Grassic Gibbon -- Nietzsche -- Franz Kafka -- Hermann Broch
Arts, Modern -- Periodicals
Civilization, Modern -- Periodicals
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Periodicals
700.904 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/mod ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗
http://www.js-modcult.bham.ac.uk ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/mod.2019.0251 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2041-1022
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- Legaldeposit
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