Classics And Celtic Literary Modernism

Author : Gregory Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1108948952

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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.

Author : Gregory Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844864

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Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Author : Gregory Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Celts in literature
ISBN : 0511071582

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Modernism and the Celtic Revival by Gregory Castle Pdf

Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W.B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. 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.

Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : Tredition Classics
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3849176606

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Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold Pdf

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Author : Marchella Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009372770

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Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres by Marchella Ward Pdf

Examines the role that spectators play in the reception and perpetuation of ableist stereotypes about blindness in the theatre.

Author : Michèle Lowrie,Barbara Vinken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009034654

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Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond by Michèle Lowrie,Barbara Vinken Pdf

Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome – republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons – makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women.

Author : Joe Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492355

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Modernism, Empire, World Literature by Joe Cleary Pdf

Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms helped remake the twentieth-century world literary system.

Author : Gregory Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1009364987

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Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism by Gregory Baker Pdf

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. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author : Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Celtic literature
ISBN : 0880290951

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A Celtic Miscellany by Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson Pdf

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1034980939

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The Celtic Twilight (Esprios Classics) by William Butler Yeats Pdf

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland, and educated there and in London. He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Celtic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015042993082

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Celtic Literature and Culture in the Twentieth Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Arnold
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502934329

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Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold Pdf

"[...]volume, - remarks which were the original cause of Mr. Owen's writing to me, and must have been fully present to his mind when he read my letter, - the shortcomings both of the Celtic race, and of the Celtic students of its literature and antiquities, are unreservedly marked, and, so far as is necessary, blamed. \'7b0b\'7d It was, indeed, not my purpose to make blame the chief part of what I said; for the Celts, like other people, are to be meliorated rather by developing their gifts than by chastising their defects. The wise man, says Spinoza admirably, 'de humana impotentia non nisi parce loqui curabit, at largiter de humana virtute seupotentia.' But so far as condemnation of Celtic failure was needful towards preparing the way for the growth of Celtic virtue, I used condemnation. The Times, however, prefers a shorter and sharper method of dealing with the Celts, and in a couple of leading articles, having the Chester Eisteddfod and my letter to Mr. Hugh Owen for their text, it developed with great frankness, and in its usual forcible style, its own views for the amelioration of Wales and its people. Cease to do evil, learn to do good, was the upshot of its exhortations to the Welsh; by evil, the Times understanding all things Celtic, and by good, all things English. 'The Welsh language is the curse of Wales. Its prevalence, and the[...]".

Author : Peter J. Kalliney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199977987

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Commonwealth of Letters by Peter J. Kalliney Pdf

Commonwealth of Letters examines midcentury literary institutions integral to modernism and postcolonial writing. Several organizations central to interwar modernism, such as the BBC, influential publishers, and university English departments, became important sites in the emergence of postcolonial literature after the war. How did some of modernism's leading figures of the 1930s-such as T.S. Eliot, Louis MacNeice, and Stephen Spender-come to admire late colonial and early postcolonial literature in the 1950s? Similarly, why did late colonial and early postcolonial writers-including Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Claude McKay, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o-actively seek alliances with metropolitan intellectuals? Peter Kalliney's original and extensive archival work on modernist cultural institutions demonstrates that this disparate group of intellectuals had strong professional incentives to treat one another more as fellow literary professionals, and less as political or cultural antagonists. Surprisingly, metropolitan intellectuals and their late colonial counterparts leaned heavily on modernist theories of aesthetic autonomy to facilitate their collaborative ventures. For white, metropolitan writers, T.S. Eliot's notion of impersonality could help recruit new audiences and conspirators from colonized regions of the world. For black, colonial writers, aesthetic autonomy could be used to imagine a literary sphere uniquely resistant to the forms of racial prejudice endemic to the colonial system. This strategic collaboration did not last forever, but as Commonwealth of Letters shows, it left a lasting imprint on the ultimate disposition of modernism and the evolution of postcolonial literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140442472

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A Celtic Miscellany by Anonim Pdf

Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of Cú Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sensitive and intimate writings of early Celtic Christianity, this anthology provides a fascinating insight into a deeply creative literary tradition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Eve Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192640222

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Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination by Eve Patten Pdf

This book asks how English authors of the early to mid twentieth-century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work, and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and aspirations within, England itself. Drawing predominantly on novels of this period, but also on letters, travelogues, literary criticism, and memoir, it illustrates how Irish affairs provided a marginal but pervasive point of reference for a wide range of canonical authors in England, including Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh, and also for many lesser-known figures such as Ethel Mannin, George Thomson, and T.H. White. The book surveys these and other incidental writers within the broad framework of literary modernism, an arc seen to run in temporal parallel to Ireland's revolutionary trajectory from rebellion to independence. In this context, it addresses two distinct aspects of the Irish-English relationship as it features in the literature of the time: first, the uneasy recognition of a fundamental similarity between the two countries in terms of their potential for violent revolutionary instability, and second, the proleptic engagement of Irish events to prefigure, imaginatively, the potential course of England's evolution from the Armistice to the Second World War. Tracing these effects, this book offers a topical renegotiation of the connections between Irish and English literary culture, nationalism, and political ideology, together with a new perspective on the Irish sources engaged by English literary modernism.