Moving in circles : Willa Muir's writings
Christianson, Aileen2007
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A study of Willa Muir's writings including a memoir of her husband Edwin Muir. It considers her work, including her journals and letters, in the contexts of modernism. It also explores feminism of the 1920s, and the extent to which Willa's radical exploration of gender and the position of women underwrites all her work. This is a first full-length critical study of Willa Muir's writings including a poignant memoir of her husband Edwin Muir.It contains poems, letters and work previously unpublished.It will appeal to those interested in 20th century Scottish literature and 1920s and '30s Modernism - Willa & Edwin Muir were part of a restless intellectual group of writers and thinkers such as Hugh MacDiarmid, T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell...Willa & Edwin Muir were the first translators of Franz Kafka's work into English."Imagined Selves", a collection of Willa Muir's work, is a Canongate Classic. Willa Muir is now taught on many University courses and this new book taps in to the current renaissance of interest in Scottish women's writing.Willa Muir (1890-1970) was born in Montrose. She studied Classics at St Andrews University. With Edwin she lived a peripatetic life which included time spent in London, Prague, France and at Newbattle Abbey.Willa Muir published two novels ("Imagined Corners" and "Mrs Ritchie"), two polemics ("Women: An Inquiry" and "Mrs Grundy in Scotland"); two non-fiction studies ("Living with Ballads" and "Belonging", a memoir of her husband Edwin Muir), poetry; and numerous reviews and translations (including Franz Kafka's work). "Moving in Circles" considers Willa's work, including her journals and letters, in the contexts of modernism. It also explores feminism of the 1920s, and the extent to which Willa's radical exploration of gender and the position of women underwrites all her work.Review: "'Finally, the first full-length critical appreciation of one of our finest literary figures. This book, with its blend of readable and scholarly, contemporary-theoretical and historical, has been well worth the wait.' Ali Smith 'For my part if any man tells me nowadays that I do not think straight, I say: "And why should I? It's my business to think in circles, the wider the better. I'm a woman." Willa Muir in The Listener, 1938.".
Main title:
Moving in circles : Willa Muir's writings / Aileen Christianson.
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Publisher:
Edinburgh : Word Power Books, 2007.
Collation:
250 p. : graphs, 20 photo.
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Paperback.
Biography/History:
AILEEN CHRISTIANSON is a senior lecturer in English Literature, University of Edinburgh, specialising on Scottish women's writing of the 19th and 20th centuries. She co-edited Scottish Women's Fiction 1920s -1960s (Tuckwell) and Contemporary Scottish Women's Fiction (Edinburgh University Press). She is also a senior editor of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle.
ISBN:
9780954918552 (pbk)095491855X (pbk)
Language:
English
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Index terms:
SHETLAND MUIR, Edwin MACDIARMID, Hugh GIBBON, Lewis Grassic GRIEVE, Christopher ISBISTER HOUSE ORKNEY BROWN, George Mackay
BRN:
3979268
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