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OverviewCeltic 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gregory Baker (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.473kg ISBN: 9781009364980ISBN 10: 1009364987 Pages: 322 Publication Date: 13 July 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. '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.Reviews'Celtic Modernism and Classics is impressive … Baker uncovers the fascinating variety in the nationalist and language-revival movements of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries … Baker does an excellent job of resisting the temptation, far too easy in a monograph of this sort, of finding an easy overall thesis to cover these disparate writers.' Stephanie Nelson, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 'Celtic Modernism and Classics is impressive ... Baker uncovers the fascinating variety in the nationalist and language-revival movements of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries ... Baker does an excellent job of resisting the temptation, far too easy in a monograph of this sort, of finding an easy overall thesis to cover these disparate writers.' Stephanie Nelson, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics Author InformationGregory Baker is Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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