Irish modernism and the global primitive
By: edited by Maria McGarrity & Claire A. Culleton.
Contributors: McGarrity, Maria, 1970-; Culleton, Claire A.
Series: New directions in Irish and Irish American literature series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Primitivism in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Ireland; Primitivism -- Ireland. -- History -- 20th century
Description: This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.
Notes: Includes index.