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Edwin Muir, the Glossary

Edwin Muir CBE (15 May 1887 – 3 January 1959) was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator.^[1]

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20th-century Scottish translators
Translators of Franz Kafka
Writers from Orkney

Amerika (novel)

Amerika, (German working title Der Verschollene, "The Missing") also known as The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), Amerika: The Missing Person and Lost in America, is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927.

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Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology (Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" of the psyche.

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Archetype

The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: BBC Alba) is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Cencrastus

Cencrastus was a magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a lecturer in the English Department, with the express intention of perpetuating the devolution debate.

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Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts.

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Christians

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Creation myth

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

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Deerness

Deerness (Old Norse: Dyrnes) is a quoad sacra parish (i.e. one created and functioning for ecclesiastical purposes only) and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (31 July 1909 – 26 May 1999) was an Austrian-American nobleman and polymath, whose areas of interest included philosophy, history, political science, economics, linguistics, art and theology.

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Ernst Lothar

Ernst Lothar (25 October 1890 – 30 October 1974) was a Moravian-Austrian writer, theatre director/manager and producer.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.

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Garden of Eden

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.

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George G. Harrap and Co.

George G. Harrap, Ltd (officially: George G. Harrap and Company Limited, London, Bombay) was a publisher of speciality books, many of them educational, such as the memoirs of Winston Churchill, or highly illustrated with line drawings, engravings or etchings, such as the much republished classic educational children's book The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone from at least 1901 into the 1980s.

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George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown are 20th-century Scottish poets and writers from Orkney.

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Heinrich Mann

Luiz Heinrich Mann (March 27, 1871 – March 11, 1950), best known as simply Heinrich Mann, was a German writer known for his socio-political novels.

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Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Christopher Murray Grieve (11 August 1892 – 9 September 1978), best known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid are 20th-century Scottish poets, 20th-century Scottish translators and Scottish Renaissance.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung

The Johann Heinrich Voß Prize in Translation (Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung) is awarded yearly by the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

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John Piper (artist)

John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets.

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Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Jessie Raine (14 June 1908 – 6 July 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor.

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Lallans

Lallans (a Modern Scots variant of the word lawlands, referring to the lowlands of Scotland), is a term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole. Edwin Muir and Lallans are Scottish Renaissance.

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Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.

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Mainland, Orkney

The Mainland, also known as Hrossey and Pomona, is the main island of Orkney, Scotland.

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Memorial bench

A memorial bench, memorial seat or death bench is a piece of outdoor furniture which commemorates a dead person.

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Midlothian

Midlothian (Meadhan Lodainn) is a historic county, registration county, lieutenancy area and one of 32 council areas of Scotland used for local government.

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National Galleries of Scotland

The National Galleries of Scotland (Gailearaidhean Nàiseanta na h-Alba, sometimes also known as National Galleries Scotland) is the executive non-departmental public body that controls the three national galleries of Scotland and two partner galleries, forming one of the National Collections of Scotland.

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Newbattle Abbey

Newbattle Abbey was a Cistercian monastery near the village of Newbattle in Midlothian, Scotland, which subsequently become a stately home and then an educational institution.

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Orcadians

Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen, are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and ancestry.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Orkney

Orkney (Orkney; Orkneyjar; Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a United States literary society that seeks to promote poetry and lyricism in the wider culture.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Scottish nationalism

Scottish nationalism promotes the idea that the Scottish people form a cohesive nation and national identity.

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Scottish Renaissance

The Scottish Renaissance (Ath-bheòthachadh na h-Alba; Scots Renaissance) was a mainly literary movement of the early to mid-20th century that can be seen as the Scottish version of modernism.

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Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch (שלום אַש, Szalom Asz; 1 November 1880 – 10 July 1957), also written Shalom Ash, was a Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh.

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Swaffham Prior

Swaffham Prior is a small village in East Cambridgeshire, England.

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Swanston, Edinburgh

Swanston is a village and residential area on the southern edge of Edinburgh, Scotland, noted for its picturesque thatched cottages set around an informal village green.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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The Castle (novel)

The Castle (Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß) is the last novel by Franz Kafka.

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The Massachusetts Review

The Massachusetts Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.

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The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel)

The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler) is a 1930s novel in three parts, by the Austrian novelist and essayist Hermann Broch.

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The Trial

The Trial (Der Process) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Willa Muir

Willa Muir (née Anderson; 13 March 189022 May 1970), also known as Agnes Neill Scott, was a Scottish novelist, essayist and translator. Edwin Muir and Willa Muir are 20th-century Scottish translators, Scottish Renaissance and translators of Franz Kafka.

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Wyre, Orkney

Wyre (historically known as Viera and Veira) is one of the Orkney Islands, lying south-east of Rousay.

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1953 Coronation Honours

The 1953 Coronation Honours were appointments by Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours on the occasion of her coronation on 2 June 1953.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Muir

, The Massachusetts Review, The Metamorphosis, The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel), The Trial, Vienna, Willa Muir, Wyre, Orkney, 1953 Coronation Honours.

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20th-century Scottish translators

Translators of Franz Kafka

Writers from Orkney

References