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What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did
men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What
were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath
of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did
the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were
fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and
the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary
essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation,
belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter
with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked
essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural
studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war
has shaped Scotland.
The first half of the Twentieth Century witnessed two catastrophic
global conflicts, with suffering on a scale that - thankfully -
later generations find hard to comprehend. The full story of what
it was like to endure these wars might never be told, because many
who survived chose not to speak - or could not speak - of what they
saw and suffered. But some could turn to poetry, to try to make
sense of what was happening. From the Line brings together the best
of Scotland's poetry from the two World Wars: 138 poems, from
fifty-six poets, are represented here, from both men and women,
from battlefields across the world and from the Home Front, too.
There is dread in these lines as poets reflect on the loss of
peace, or mourn the death of friends and comrades. Some tell of
traumas that can never be shaken off, others of an intensity that
would never be found again - but there is hope, too, and moments of
humour, compassion and decency that survived the worst.
The SCOTNOTES booklets are a series of study guides to major
Scottish writers and texts frequently used within literature
courses, aimed at senior secondary school pupils and students in
further education. The individual authors are not only experts on a
particular writer or text but also experienced in teaching in
schools or colleges. This SCOTNOTE Study Guide explores the
responses of Scottish poets to the First and Second World Wars,
from the sometimes jingoistic optimism of the early days of 1914,
to the horrors of the trenches, to the massed and mechanised
brutalities of total war - not forgetting, too, the experiences on
the Home Front and the traumas of memory.
A Critical Difference is a detailed study of perhaps the most
intriguing and important literary-critical dialogue of the 1920s.
Goldie places the critical writing of T. S. Eliot and John
Middleton Murry firmly in the context of a contentious post-war
literary culture and argues for the need to read their work as a
series of interventions within that culture. The book traces the
development of their criticism from early collaboration on the
Athenaeum through to the rivalries between Eliot's Criterion and
Murry's Adelphi. It explores the informing contexts of several of
Eliot's better-known essays and sheds new light on his role as a
polemicist and critical controversialist.
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did
men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What
were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath
of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did
the Scottish soldiers of the First World War think they were
fighting for? Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory and
the Legacy of Bannockburn is a collection of new interdisciplinary
essays interrogating the trans-historical myths of nation,
belonging and martial identity that shaped Scotland's encounter
with the First World War. In a series of thematically linked
essays, experts from the fields of literature, history and cultural
studies examine how Scotland remembers war, and how remembering war
has shaped Scotland.
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