Abstract
Examines Hugh MacDiarmid’s “citational poetics” – that is, his practice of selecting material from a wide range of pre-existing texts, before transforming that material and then combining it in his own work, often without attribution – and shows how reading MacDiarmid’s long 1955 poem In Memoriam James Joyce with reference to this practice places that text within the lineage of “provincial modernism” identified by Robert Crawford.
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Benstead, James
(2024)
"‘No further from the “centre of things”’: Peripheral Citation in Hugh MacDiarmid’s In Memoriam James Joyce,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 49:
Iss.
1, 125–142.
DOI: 10.51221/sc.ssl.2024.49.1.8
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol49/iss1/8