Whose history, which novel?: Neil M. Gunn and the Gaelic Idea
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Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Price, Richard
Date published
1997
Abstract
This article examines the radical approach to narrative that the novelist Neil M. Gunn takes in his 1930s novel of the Highland Clearances, Butcher's Broom. It places Gunn's aesthetics in the context of the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid's conceptual "Gaelic Idea" and suggests that Gunn is also engaging with a wider questioning in British literature at that time of models of leadership.
Journal title
Scottish Literary Journal
Volume
24
Issue
2
Publisher
Association of Scottish Literary Studies
Place of publication
Glasgow, UK
ISSN
0305-0785