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Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108953825
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Book description

Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged across Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Writers on the 'Celtic fringe' sometimes confronted, and sometimes consciously advanced, crudely ideological manipulations of the inherited past. But even as they did so, their eccentric ways of using the classics and its residual cultural authority animated new decentered idioms of English - literary vernaculars so fragmented and inflected by polyglot intrusion that they expanded the range of Anglophone literature and left in their wake compelling stories for a new age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Reviews

‘Celtic Modernism and Classics is impressive … Baker uncovers the fascinating variety in the nationalist and language-revival movements of Ireland, Wales, and Scotland in the 19th and 20th centuries … Baker does an excellent job of resisting the temptation, far too easy in a monograph of this sort, of finding an easy overall thesis to cover these disparate writers.’

Stephanie Nelson Source: Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

'… this book is well researched and finely written. It has a wealth of interesting details and observations, and conveys its subject with great vividness and subtlety …'

Rory O’Sullivan Source: Irish Studies Review

‘… if one is looking for a thorough survey of how classical texts and models were received by Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid, and how these receptions related to their thinking about their own nations in comparison to England, this informative and beautifully written book will do the job nicely.’

Nathan Wallace Source: James Joyce Quarterly

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Contents

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  • Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism
    pp i-i
  • Classics after Antiquity - Series page
    pp ii-iv
  • Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism - Title page
    pp v-v
  • Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones
  • Copyright page
    pp vi-vi
  • Dedication
    pp vii-vii
  • Epigraph
    pp viii-viii
  • Contents
    pp ix-x
  • Preface
    pp xi-xviii
  • Additional material
    pp xix-xix
  • Acknowledgments
    pp xx-xxii
  • Abbreviations
    pp xxiii-xxvi
  • Introduction
    pp 1-48
  • “At Once the Bow and the Mark”: Classics and Celtic Revival
  • Chapter 1 - “A Noble Vernacular?”
    pp 49-84
  • Yeats, Hellenism and the Anglo-Irish Nation
  • Chapter 2 - “Hellenise It”
    pp 85-122
  • Joyce and the Mistranslation of Revival
  • Chapter 4 - “Heirs of Romanity”
    pp 157-194
  • Welsh Nationalism and the Modernism of David Jones
  • Conclusion
    pp 236-256
  • References
    pp 257-290
  • Index
    pp 291-300

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