The question of Irish identity in the writings of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

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    • O'Brien, Eugene

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The question of Irish identity in the writings of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce

Eugene O'Brien

Edwin Mellen Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-272) and index

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内容説明

This study seeks to redefine the notions of Irishness and of Irish identity which have been current in cultural and socio-political discourse since the beginning of the 20th century. It also offers readings of the work of W.B. Yeats and James Joyce, examining their similar attitudes to identity.

目次

  • Part 1 Spatial and temporal notions of Irish identity: the backward look - the centripetal past
  • vectors of national definition
  • Tara to Holyhead - the centrifugal vector
  • defenders and united Irishmen - two views of Irish identity. Part 2 The question of language: what is my language? centripetal revival
  • revival or redefinition?. Part 3 Yeats - voices of myth - voices of critique: Yeats and the creation of an Irish mythology
  • from creation to critique
  • Cuchulain discomforted. Part 4 Joyce - a commodius vicus of recirculation: Joycean epistemology of identity
  • nets that must be flown by
  • emmigration as trope
  • Patrick W. Shakespeare. Part 5 Conclusion - towards an ethics of community.

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