Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

ISBN-13: 9781009364980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 322 str.

Washington DC) Bake Gregory (Catholic University of America

Opis

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

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Recenzje

'… this book is well researched and finely written. It has a wealth of interesting details and observations, and conveys its subject with great vividness and subtlety …' Rory O'Sullivan, Irish Studies Review

Spis treści

1. 'A noble vernacular?' Yeats, Hellenism and the Anglo-Irish nation; 2. 'Hellenise it.' Joyce and the mistranslation of revival; 3. 'Straight Talk, Straight as the Greek!' Ireland's Oedipus and the modernism of Yeats; 4. 'Heirs of Romanity:' Welsh nationalism and the modernism of David Jones; 5. 'A form of Doric which is no dialect in particular:' Scotland and the planetary classics of Hugh MacDiarmid.