Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism - Yeats, Joyce, Macdiarmid and Jones

List of contents

1. 'A noble vernacular?' Yeats, Hellenism and the Anglo-Irish nation; 2. 'Hellenise it.' Joyce and the mistranslation of revival; 3. 'Straight Talk, Straight as the Greek!' Ireland's Oedipus and the modernism of Yeats; 4. 'Heirs of Romanity:' Welsh nationalism and the modernism of David Jones; 5. 'A form of Doric which is no dialect in particular:' Scotland and the planetary classics of Hugh MacDiarmid.

About the author

Gregory Baker is Assistant Professor of English and the Director of Irish Studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.

Summary

Traces multivocal receptions of classics across political and linguistic nationalisms of twentieth-century Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and shows how they provoked experimental literary forms of modernist collusion and resistance - aesthetic idioms whose use of antiquity interrogated the aims of Celtic 'nation-building' in the British Isles.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory Baker, Gregory (Catholic University of America Baker, Baker Gregory
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781108844864
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84486-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE