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Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Literature: Modernism in Scotland - The Scottish Literary Renaissance - Details

Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Literature: Modernism in Scotland - The Scottish Literary Renaissance - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-3-D1/WD1-07 Key Topics in Literature: Modernism in Scotland - The Scottish Literary Renaissance
Subtitle
Course number 10-76-3-D1/WD1-07
Semester WiSe 2025/2026
Current number of participants 12
expected number of participants 35
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
Next date Monday, 15.12.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Room: GW2 B1632
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja
Veranstaltung für ältere Erwachsene Yes

Rooms and times

GW2 B1632
Monday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (10x)
GW2 B2890
Monday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (4x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This course explores the Scottish Renaissance, a literary and cultural movement emerging in the first half of the twentieth century and now recognised as the Scottish version of European Modernism. As its name suggests, the aim of the Scottish Renaissance was not so much to “make it new” but instead centred around a cultural revival of Scotland’s literary and cultural identity which was thought to be inherently fragmented and in urgent need of reinvention. In this course, we will look at the different ways through which the Renaissance movement aimed to establish Scotland’s status within the literary world and to create its own distinct modern identity. For this purpose, we will take a look at the poetry, essays and fiction published by Scottish writers such as Hugh MacDiarmid, Nan Shepherd and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. We will consider Scottish modernism in relation to its European counterpart and examine how writers explored literary traditions, which avant-garde strategies they adopted, and how they managed to merge artistic innovation with the exploration of national identity and social change in relation to topics such as gender, subjectivity, cosmopolitanism or trauma.

Please acquire a copy of the following books:
• Shepherd, Nan. 2016. The Weatherhouse. Edinburgh: Canongate.
• Muir, Willa. 1988. Imagined Corners. Edinburgh: Canongate.
• Gibbon, Lewis Grassic. 2020. Sunset Song. Edinburgh: Canongate.

Shorter readings will be provided. Please be aware that this is a reading-intensive course.

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