1st Edition
Yeats and Joyce Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition
By Alistair Cormack
Copyright 2008
229 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
229 Pages
by
Routledge
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While postcolonial studies has contributed much to our understanding of Irish modernism, it has also encouraged less-than-accurate portrayals of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites: Yeats as the inventor of Irish mystique and Joyce as its relentless demythologiser. Alistair Cormack's complex study provides a corrective to these misleading characterisations by analysing the tools Yeats and Joyce... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Part 1: Yeats and Joyce: the Punch and Judy show of Irish modernism; Giambattista Vico and idealist history; Yeats, Joyce and the hermetic tradition; Blake the Irishman; Idealist history: nationalism, modernism and minor literature. Part 2: Ulysses; Yeat's 1937 A Vision; Finnegans Wake; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr Alistair Cormack, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK.
'Cormack’s book is an important contribution to the literature on Irish modernism and a welcome corrective to some of the inaccuracies that have propagated in the wake of the postcolonial turn.' European Legacy
