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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Irish literary revival"”.
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
This study elucidates the link between Irish Revival Literature and the Chinese May Fourth cultural and political movement (1917-1923). Within the framework of Colonial and Postcolonial studies, the study provides a comparative analysis of works by W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) vs Lu Xun (1881-1936), Sean …
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… last century was a vital creative force in the Irish Literary Revival. Under the leadership of AE and 1. B. Yeats, young writers sought their inspiration in the glories of Ireland's heroic age rather than the sorrows of her more recent past. How the best-loved and most enduring of the legends, …
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Advent of the Everyday Cathleen: Katharine Tynan and Motifs of Irish Identity 1911-1921
… an esteemed author in the forefront of the Irish Literary Revival, frequented the social, political, and artistic circles of colleagues such as W.B. Yeats and George Russell (AE); alongside her male counterparts, she fostered friendships and collaborated in reciprocal mentorships that …
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"Sung Out of the Void": Yeats's Folkloric Nationalism
… which Yeats exploits in his promotion of an Irish Literary Revival. Discovering a purpose and direction for his work in the late 1880's, Yeats hoped to produce a national and nationalistic literature which would emphasize the uniqueness of Irish culture: one that would pay homage to Ireland's …
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The historical consciousness of Ulysses: James Joyce's gendered, national aesthetics
… while being sensitive to subaltern voices and Irish discourses of nationhood. Locating Uýysses within the heteroglossia of the Irish Literary Revival, through a chronotopicity -, N-hich also looks back into Irish history and forward to the years of struggle in Ireland's fight for independence, …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
Critics often narrate the Irish Literary Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a rejection of literary realism, specifically its English incarnation. Critics such as David Lloyd and Terry Eagleton have argued that the conditions of colonial Ireland – social instability, …
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Irish modernism and the machine
… Instead of an affirmation, I posit that Irish modernists issue a qualification, suggesting that Ireland’s technological development must be accompanied by ideological advancement. Irish modernists thus cast machines as vehicles that operate beyond the bounds of their mechanistic …