Modernism and the Celtic Revival
"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, even as these Irish writers remained ambivalently dependent on the cultural and political discourses they sought to undermine. Castle shows how Irish modernists employed textual and rhetorical strategies first developed...
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This book should be of interest to scholars in Irish studies, post-colonial studies and Modernism.
AcknowledgmentsList of abbreviations1The Celtic muse: anthropology, modernism, and the Celtic Revival12"Fair equivalents": Yeats, Revivalism, and the redemption of culture403"Synge-On-Aran": The Aran Islands and the subject of Revivalist ethnography984Staging ethnography: Synge's The Playboy of the Western World1345"A renegade from the ranks": Joyce's critique of Revivalism in the early fiction1726Joyce's modernism: anthropological fictions in Ulysses208Conclusion. After the Revival: "Not even Main Street is Safe"248Notes261Select bibliography292Index306
