Modernism and the Celtic Revival

By Gregory Castle

Book Overview

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. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed in anthropology to translate, reassemble, and edit oral and folk-cultural material. Drawing on a wide range of postcolonial theory, this book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, postcolonial studies, and Modernism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052179319X
• ISBN13: 9780521793193
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"