Cencrastus No. 8: Spring 1982

Features

Inferiorism by Craig Beveridge and Ronald Turnbull
Interview with David Fennario by Martin Bowman
Sianel 4: Television in Wales by Trefor Williams
Interview with Norman MacCaig by Raymond J. Ross
The Realist Tradition by William Buchanan
Revaluation: R.B. Cunninghame Graham by Tom Hubbard

Fiction

The Island at Noon by Julio Cortázar, translated by Peter Standish
Men o the Moss Flow by Shi Naian, translated by Brian Holton
The Bush and the Garden Cities by Les A. Murray

Poetry

Poems by Hamish Whyte, William S. Milne, Geddes Thomson, John Haggerty, I.H. Robertson, Ron Butlin, Eugene Dubnov and Steve Walker

Reviews

The Origins of the Modern British Crisis?: Angus Calder, Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the 15th Century to the 1780s, reviewed by Bruce Lenman
Dallas W. Smythe, Dependency Road: Communications, Capitalism, Consciousness and Canada, reviewed by Dave Mackie
David Heald, Financing Devolution within the UK: A Study of Lessons from Failure, reviewed by Neil A. Fraser
R.A. Cage, The Scots Poor Law 1745 - 1845, reviewed by T.C. Smout
Graham Ritche and Anna Ritchie, Scotland: Archaeology and Early History, reviewed by Ian Grimble
David B. Smith, Curling: An Illustrated History, reviewed by Alexander Fenton
John McGrath, A Good Night Out and The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, reviewed by Stephen Lacey
Scott Nat: Paul Hernderson Scott, Sir Walter Scott and Scotland and Walter Scott, The Letters of Malachai Malagrowther, reviewed by William Donaldson
Ian Campbell, Kailyard: A New Assessment, reviewed by Ian Carter
Paul Mixner (ed.), Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage and Jenni Calder (ed.), Stevenson and Victorian Scotland, reviewed by Alex Clunas
Bernard Sellin, The Life and Works of David Lindsay, reviewed by John Herdman
Douglas Dunn, St. Kilda's Parliament, reviewed by Kenneth White
The Individual Voice: Liz Lochhead, The Grimm Sisters; J.F. Hendry, World Alien; Eddie Linden, City of Razors and Other Poems; David Black, Gravitations; Tessa Randsford, Light of the Mind; and Rob King, Still Life, reviewed by Paul Mills
Ernest Campbell Mossner, The Life of David Hume, reviewed by Craig Beveridge
Malcom Scott, Mauriac: The Politics of a Novelist, reviewed by Owen Dudley Edwards
Benjamin, Eagleton and Goldmann: Lucien Goldmann, Method in the Sociology of Literature; Terry Eagleton, Walter Benjamin, or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, reviewed by Peter Womack
The Brothers Mann: Erich Heller, Thomas Mann: The Ironic German and Nigel Hamilton, The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, reviewed by William T. Webster
Robert Tracey (ed.), Osip Mandelstam's "Stone", reviewed by Peter McCarey