ADAPTIVE MODERNISM AND BEYOND: TOWARDS A POETICS OF A NEW SCOTLAND
Ullrich Kockel
The idea of a ‘New Scotland’, and the role Scots’ in it, is being debated critically. This essay contextualises this debate with reference to historical antecedents contemporary protagonists draw on, sometimes extensively. It introduces Scottish Renaissance, which can be regarded as an expression ‘adaptive’ modernism. Folk Revival after Second World War, form modernism, shares key concerns that connecting it through Carrying Stream (Hamish Henderson). two movements share more than their ethnological foundations, focus on language identity, generalist interest civic improvement. Reflecting significance heritages, authenticity, resources, sustainability context, discussion concludes appraisal (anti-)modern/post-modern ethnopoesis at work Scotland.
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