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"Keeping the Sources Pure": The Making of George MacKay Brown
Contributor(s): Schmid, Sabine (Author), Collier, Peter (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0820462810     ISBN-13: 9780820462813
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
OUR PRICE: $45.55  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Religion | History
- Religion | Christian Theology - General
Dewey: 821.914
LCCN: 2003044660
Series: European Connections,
Physical Information: 310 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This volume assesses the literary stature of George Mackay Brown by contextualising his prose and his poetry within twentieth-century British and European literary practices and traditions of thought. Challenging the typecasting of Brown as 'Orkney writer', the book links him with European Modernism and reveals the complex web of experiences, influences and relationships that shaped Brown's poetic development. This comparative study argues that Edwin Muir, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Thomas Mann analysed remarkably similar cultural and spiritual phenomena, inspiring Brown's own work. Muir travelled back into what he called the racial memory of the tribe. Hopkins aimed for a revival of religious values and the recovery of the sacramental power of the word. Thomas Mann felt that man must discover and put into practice a 'new humanism' which would embrace the mythic-archetypal structure of the unconscious and man's individual consciousness. All four writers attempted to 'get back to the roots and sources' by probing the ways in which individuals and society as a whole gain a better understanding of and a more meaningful relationship with their pasts. This book chronicles George Mackay Brown's personal and artistic journey, from his early reporting days on an Orkney newspaper, through spells in hospital recovering from tuberculosis, to his friendship with Edwin Muir and growing confidence in his own vision. Contents: Brown's Orkney background - Brown and Scottish literature - Brown and European literature - Brown and Modernism - Brown's and Edwin Muir's personal and literary relationship - Skaldic influences - Influence of GerardManley Hopkins on Brown's spiritual vision and approach to poetry and the word - The search for wholeness - Brown and Catholicism - Hopkins' idea of inscape and Brown - Sacramental art - Brown's interest in Thomas Mann - Modern literature and 'the ordinary' - Bertolt Brecht's influence on Brown.
 
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