The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's wake : appropriation and cultural politics in Ireland, 1867-1922

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The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's wake : appropriation and cultural politics in Ireland, 1867-1922

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appropriation and cultural politics in Ireland, 1867-1922

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Adam Putz

Creator

• Putz, Adam

Subject

• English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• English literature -- Irish authors | History and criticism
• Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
• Politics and literature -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | History -- 19th century
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation | History -- 20th century
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Influence
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Appreciation -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Appropriation emerged during the Celtic Revival as a singular mode of engaging with the Shakespearean text to conceptualise and frame national identities in Ireland using the English language. With The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake, Adam Putz has examined the ways in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics shaped the Shakespeares of Matthew Arnold, Edward Dowden, and W.B. Yeats. His close readings underscore the instability of the binary oppositions upon which these writers relied to predicate their appropriations. However, Putz finds in James Joyce an urgent concern for the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics mediated the relationship with Shakespeare for a generation of Irish men and women. Therefore, Putz reconsiders periodization and literary inheritance, the nation and modernity in order to point up the contingency of those values located in and imposed upon Shakespeare during the Revival."--

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non fiction

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