| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) |
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature |
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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| Contents |
Ambivalent Primitives: Responding to the Celtic Revival -- Queering the Revivalist's Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivism / John McCourt -- Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Discourse in Pearse's Political Essays / Barbara A. Suess -- Magnificent Words and Gestures : Defining the Primitive in Synge's The Aran Islands / Elizabeth Gilmartin -- Primitivism, Ethnography, and Cultural Translation / The Ethnographic Roots of Joyce's Modernism: Exhibiting Ireland's Primitives in the National Museum and the "Nestor" Episode / Kathleen St. Peters Lancia -- Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in Ireland / Justin Carville -- "The Loveliness Which Has Not Yet Come Into the World" : Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce's (Irish) Modernism / M. Teresa Caneda -- Cabrera & Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses / Maria McGarrity -- Gender, Primitivism, and the Body -- "Reluctant Indians" : Irish Identity and Racial Masquerade / Greg Winston -- Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle's Earth-Bound / Lisa Weihman -- Domestic Gothic, the Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The House in Paris / Phyllis Lassner and Paula Derdiger -- The Gaelic Athletic Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body / Claire A. Culleton |
| Summary |
This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Primitivism in literature.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland
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Primitivism -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
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Literary essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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English literature
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Primitivism in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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Primitivism
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Ireland
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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dissertations.
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Academic theses.
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Thèses et écrits académiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McGarrity, Maria, 1970-
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Culleton, Claire A.
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| ISBN |
9780230617193 |
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0230617190 |
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