Modernism and the Celtic Revival

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"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."--Jacket.

subjects: English literature,  History and criticism,  Civilization,  Literature and anthropology,  Celts in literature,  Celtic influences,  Modernism (Literature),  In literature,  Mythology, Celtic, in literature,  Irish authors,  English literature, irish authors, history and criticism,  English literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  Mythology in literature,  Ireland, civilization,  Ireland, in literature,  Criticism and interpretation

Places: Ireland

Times: 20th century,  19th century