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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820325003321

Autore

Castle Gregory

Titolo

Modernism and the Celtic revival / / Gregory Castle [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12217-1

1-280-15842-5

1-139-14691-2

0-511-11915-1

0-511-06312-1

0-511-05679-6

0-511-30330-0

0-511-48501-8

0-511-07158-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

820.9/9417/0904

Soggetti

English literature - Irish authors - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - Ireland

English literature - 20th century - History and criticism

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English literature - Celtic influences

Literature and anthropology - Ireland

Mythology, Celtic, in literature

Celts in literature

Ireland Civilization 19th century

Ireland Civilization 20th century

Ireland In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Celtic muse: anthropology, modernism, and the Celtic Revival -- "Fair equivalents": Yeats, Revivalism, and the redemption of culture -- "Synge-On-Aran": The Aran Islands and the subject of Revivalist



ethnography -- Staging ethnography: Synge's The Playboy of the Western World -- "A renegade from the ranks": Joyce's critique of Revivalism in the early fiction -- Joyce's modernism: anthropological fiction in Ulysses -- After the Revival: "Not even Main Street is Safe."

Sommario/riassunto

In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism, even as these Irish writers remained ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses they sought to undermine. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in anthropology to translate, reassemble and edit oral and folk-cultural material. In doing so, he claims, they confronted and undermined inherited notions of identity which Ireland, often a site of ethnographic curiosity throughout the nineteenth-century, had been subject to. Drawing on a wide range of post-colonial theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, post-colonial studies and Modernism.