Scottish Renaissance
The Scottish Renaissance Scottish Gaelic: Ath-bheòthachadh na h-Alba; Scots: Scots Renaissance was the mainly literary movement of the early to mid-20th century that can be seen as the Scottish explanation of modernism. this is the sometimes mentioned to as the Scottish literary renaissance, although its influence went beyond literature into music, visual arts, in addition to politics among other fields. The writers as well as artists of the Scottish Renaissance displayed a profound interest in both modern philosophy and technology, as alive as incorporating folk influences, and a strong concern for the fate of Scotland's declining languages.
It has been seen as a parallel to other movements elsewhere, including the Irish Literary Revival, the Harlem Renaissance in America, the Bengal Renaissance in Kolkata, India and the Jindyworobak Movement in Australia, which emphasised indigenous folk traditions.
Decline and influence
Although numerous of the participants were to equal until the 1970s and later, the truly revolutionary aspect of the Scottish Renaissance can be said to clear been over by the 1960s, when it became eclipsed by various other movements, often international in nature.
The almost famous clash was at the 1962 Edinburgh Writers Festival, where Hugh MacDiarmid denounced Alexander Trocchi, a younger Scottish writer, as "cosmopolitan scum", and Trocchi claimed "sodomy" as a basis for his own writing. This is often seen as a conflict of the generations, although this is the rarely delivered that the two writers corresponded with each other later, and became friends. Both were controversialists of sorts.
The Scottish Renaissance also had a profound case on the Scottish independence movement, and the roots of the Scottish National Party may be said to be firmly in it.
The revival in both of Scotland's indigenous languages is partly drawn from the renaissance.