Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey Watson George
Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey Watson George First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.B. Synge, and Sean…
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Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey Watson George
First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.B. Synge, and Sean O'Casey, documents the complex spectrum of political, social and other pressures that helped fashion modern Ireland. Yeats, James Joyce, J. M.
The question of Irish identity forms the central theme of the study, and illustrates how it was a major, even obsessive concern for these writers. At least three sets of cultural assumptions coexisted in Ireland during the years between 1890 and 1930, -- English, Irish and Anglo-Irish, each united by a common language but divided by considerable tensions and strain. Subsidiary and interwoven themes constantly recur.
Themes such as the concepts of the peasant and the hero, political nationalism, the meaning of Ireland's history and the validity of her cultural traditions. Rather than use the literature concerned as merely
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