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Cairns Craig is a Scottish academic. He is Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and before that was Head of the English Literature Department at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2003.
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He has published on authors including WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Iain Banks.
His 1984 book on Yeats, Eliot, and Pound was described by Seamus Deane as lacking a little clarity, panache and focus, but offering an "engrossing" exploration of the relationship between modernism and reactionary politics, which he links via memory, and particularly Archibald Alison's theory of associationism; Deane called it "a complicated story, illustrated by Craig with such well-chosen and well-timed quotations that it is difficult to resist."
In 1991 he wrote "Rooms without a view", an influential article attacking "heritage film".
The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (1999) brought a "modern, inclusive, skeptical intelligence" to the question of Scottish literature.
He was general editor of the four-volume series History of Scottish Literature (published 1987-89).
He has also been involved as editor or publisher with magazines including Cencrastus and Edinburgh Review.