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The Architectural Monument The Architectural Monument
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Monuments to the Poet Robert Burns Monuments to the Poet Robert Burns
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The Original Alloway Burns Monument as Idyll The Original Alloway Burns Monument as Idyll
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The Burns Birthplace Museum 2010 as a Georgic Landscape The Burns Birthplace Museum 2010 as a Georgic Landscape
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19 The Architectural Monument to Robert Burns in the New Age of Identity Politics and Nationalism
Get accessJohnny Rodger is a writer, critic, and professor of urban literature at the Glasgow School of Art. He was a co-editor of Fickle Man: Robert Burns in the 21st Century (Sandstone, 2009); more recent authored books include Hero Building: an Architecture of Scottish National Identity (Routledge, 2016) and Key Essays: Mapping the Contemporary in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2021). He is editor of the journal The Drouth and has published several volumes of fiction.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
What does it mean to build an architectural monument to a poet in the twenty-first century? The heyday of hero building and architectural monuments to national identity was in the nineteenth century, when monuments to Robert Burns were built across Scotland. In the early twenty-first century, we appear to have entered a new era of populist, nationalistic, and identity politics. Does the latest architectural memorializing of the ‘national’ poet empower users to ‘take back control’? This chapter will use conceptualizations from the art of poetry to analyse and criticize the most recent architectural monument to Robert Burns, built in the twenty-first century. Following an examination of monuments that celebrate national heroes, including some built in other countries, the essay will look at specific architectural monuments to Burns and their connections with his poetry before focussing on the building of the Burns Birthplace Museum and its relation to the land around it, ultimately linking it to commodity capitalism.
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