Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival (Oxford English Monographs) - Hardcover
What is the relevance of the Irish Revival to modernism? Why did Yeats's vision of a theatre for Ireland take a ritual form? What was so incendiary about J. M. Synge's vision of the Irish peasantry? These are among the questions that Garrigan Mattar seeks to answer by exploring the primitivism of the Irish Revival in relation to comparative science.
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Sinead Garrigan Mattar is a Drapers Company Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.
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Mattar shows how Yeats, Synge and Gregory variously construed anthropologists' changing ideas of the "primitive"... One reason why Yeats and Synge got into trouble was because Irish nationalism retained self-boosting and Christianized "noble savage" concepts, whereas they had absorbed comparative anthropology's tilt towards darker gods. This more interesting, problematic and disturbing brand of primitivism, Mattar suggests, underlies the ritualistic forms they introduced to the Irish theatre - whether to awaken the audience or the gods. Mattar's book exemplifies the value of questioning both the Revival's self-projections and powerful academic paradigms. * Edna Longley, The Dublin Review * This forceful and engaging book will oblige significant revision of established critical views of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory. * James Pethica, Modernism/Modernity *
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- Publication date2004
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