This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for thepast as a potential representation of difference and connection. INDICE: - PART I: AMBIVALENT PRIMITIVES: RESPONDING TO THE CELTIC REVIVAL - Queering the Revivalists's Pitch: Joycean Engagements with Primitivisim; J.McCourt - Robots and Rebels: Technological and Organic Discourse in Pearse's Political Essays; B.A.Suess - 'Magnificent Words and Gestures': Defining the Primitive in Synge's The aran Islands: E.Gilmatrin - PART II: PRIMITIVISM, ETHNOGRAPHY, AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION - The Ethnographic Roots of Joyce's Modernism:Exhibiting Ireland's Primitives in the National Museum and the 'Nestor' Episode; K.St.Peters Lancia - Visible Others: Photography and Romantic Ethnography in Ireland; J.Carville - 'The Loveliness Which has Not Yet Come Into the World': Translation as a Revisitation of Joyce's (Irish) Modernism; - M.T.Caneda-Cabrera - Primitive Emancipation: Religion, Sexuality, and Freedom in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses: M.McGarrity - PART III: GENDER, PRIMITIVISM AND THE BODY - 'Reluctant Indians': Irish Identity and RacialMasquerade; G.Winston - Female Militancy and Irish Primitivism: Dorothy Macardle's Earth-Bound; L.Weihman - Domestic Gothic, The Global Primitive, and Gender Relations in Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September and The House in Paris; P.Lassner & P.Derdiger - The Gaelic Athletic Association, Joyce, and the Primitive Body; C.A.Culleton
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61223-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 08/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés