Cairns Craig
Cairns Craig is a Scottish academic. He is Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and before that was Head of the English Literature Department at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2003.[1]
Work
He has published on authors including WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Iain Banks.[2]
His 1984 book on Yeats, Eliot, and Pound was described by Seamus Deane as lacking a little clarity, panache and focus, but offering an "engrossing" exploration of the relationship between modernism and reactionary politics, which he links via memory, and particularly Archibald Alison's theory of associationism; Deane called it "a complicated story, illustrated by Craig with such well-chosen and well-timed quotations that it is difficult to resist."[2]
In 1991 he wrote "Rooms without a view", an influential article attacking "heritage film".[3]
The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (1999) brought a "modern, inclusive, skeptical intelligence" to the question of Scottish literature.[4]
He was general editor of the four-volume series History of Scottish Literature (published 1987-89).
He has also been involved as editor or publisher with magazines including Cencrastus and Edinburgh Review.
Publications
- Yeats, Eliot, Pound and the Politics of Poetry (1982)[2]
- General editor, History of Scottish Literature (1987–89)
- Out of History : Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and English Culture (1996)
- The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (Edinburgh UP, 1999)
- Iain Banks's Complicity: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2002)
- Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos (2007)
- Intending Scotland: Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment (Edinburgh UP, 2009).[5]
Awards
- 2003: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[6]
- 2005: Fellow of the British Academy[7]
- 2007: Officer of the Order of the British Empire[8]
References
- ^ "Cairns Craig". University of Aberdeen. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ a b c Deane, Seamus (18 October 1984). "Yeats and the Occult". London Review of Books. 6 (19): 27.
- ^ Richards, Jeffrey (5 July 2002). "Smart-asses fail to see past gentility". Times Higher Education.
- ^ Carruthers, Gerard (2001). "The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination by CAIRNS CRAIG". Studies in the Novel. 33 (3): 369–371.
- ^ Jessop, Ralph (September 2010). "Cairns Craig, Intending Scotland: Explorations in Scottish Culture since the Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. 280pp, £60 hb. ISBN 9780748637133". Journal of Scottish Philosophy. 8 (2): 225. doi:10.3366/jsp.2010.0011.
- ^ "Royal Society of Edinburgh Directory" (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 104. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ "British Academy Fellows: Cairns Craig". British Academy. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ "Birthday Honours 2007". Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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