SENSE OF PLACE AND BELONGING IN SORLEY MACLEAN’S POETRY

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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1.16

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Antisyzygy, clearances, duality, Gaeldom, monolingualism, musicality, polylingualism.

Abstract

Sense of place and belonging in Sorley MacLean’s Poetry. Placing himself in the wake of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Scottish Renaissance, Sorley MacLean initiated the Gaelic Renaissance with the same aim in view. He turned to the Scottish impressive landscape as to a rich provider of metaphorical images that spoke of tradition, continuity and national consciousness.

REZUMAT. Metafore ale spațiului și apartenenței în poezia lui Sorley MacLean. Urmând exemplul lui Hugh MacDiarmid și al Renașterii scoțiene pe care acesta o reprezintă, Sorley MacLean a inițiat la rândul său Renașterea Galică Scoțiană cu același scop. El și-a îndreptat atenția către peisajul scoțian impresionant ca spre o sursă bogată de imagini metaforice care vorbesc despre tradiție, continuitate și conștiință națională.

Cuvinte cheie: Antisyzygy, Clearances, dualitate, Gaeldom, monolingvism, muzicalitate, plurilingvism.

Author Biography

Daniela ROGOBETE, University of Craiova, Romania. Contact address: dani.rogobete@yahoo.com

Daniela Rogobete is a translator and Senior Lecturer at the Department of British, American and German Studies, University of Craiova, Romania. She holds a PhD in Postcolonial Studies and her published work includes such titles as When Texts Come into Play–Intertexts and Intertextuality (2003), Metaphor—Between Language and Thought (2008), Deconstructing Silence—Ambiguity and Censored Metaphors in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction (2010), numerous articles and studies on Indian English fiction, intertextuality and visual culture published in national and international journals, as well as literary translations. Contact address: dani.rogobete@yahoo.com

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STUDIA UBB PHILOLOGIA, Volume 64 (LXIV), No. 1, March 2019

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2019-03-29

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ROGOBETE, D. (2019). SENSE OF PLACE AND BELONGING IN SORLEY MACLEAN’S POETRY. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 64(1), 223–236. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1.16

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