Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Title | Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2022-02-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108844863 |
Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
Title | Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781108948951 |
Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged across Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Writers on the 'Celtic fringe' sometimes confronted, and sometimes consciously advanced, crudely ideological manipulations of the inherited past. But even as they did so, their eccentric ways of using the classics and its residual cultural authority animated new decentered idioms of English - literary vernaculars so fragmented and inflected by polyglot intrusion that they expanded the range of Anglophone literature and left in their wake compelling stories for a new age.
Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres
Title | Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres PDF eBook |
Author | Marchella Ward |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2023-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009372777 |
Examines the role that spectators play in the reception and perpetuation of ableist stereotypes about blindness in the theatre.
Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
Title | Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond PDF eBook |
Author | Michèle Lowrie |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 383 |
Release | 2022-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131651644X |
The Roman tradition represents civil war as a political matter that cuts to the heart of family, sexuality, and society.
Irish Classics
Title | Irish Classics PDF eBook |
Author | Declan Kiberd |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 726 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674005051 |
A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English, which together have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures. In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and of later work in that language that refuses to die, Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations that bring the Irish texts alive for the English-speaking reader. Extending from the Irish poets who confronted modernity as a cataclysm, and who responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways, to the great modern practitioners of such paradoxically conservative and revolutionary writing, Kiberd's work embraces three sorts of Irish classics: those of awesome beauty and internal rigor, such as works by the Gaelic bards, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, and Joyce; those that generate a myth so powerful as to obscure the individual writer and unleash an almost superhuman force, such as the Cuchulain story, the lament for Art O'Laoghaire, and even Dracula; and those whose power exerts a palpable influence on the course of human action, such as Swift's Drapier's Letters, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo-Irish agreement, claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature. A delight to read throughout, Irish Classics is a fitting tribute to the works it reads so well and inspires us to read, and read again.
Modernism, Empire, World Literature
Title | Modernism, Empire, World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Cleary |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2021-06-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108492355 |
Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.
Ulysses
Title | Ulysses PDF eBook |
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