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The Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland from Yeats to Field Day
Nathan Wallace
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Description for The Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland from Yeats to Field Day
Hardback. This book is a genealogy of reconciliation in modern Ireland. As Seamus Deane has written, reconciliation stands at a nexus between politics and aesthetics in Irish writing, and has therefore often been a vehicle of colonial ideology. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
Largely inspired by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s, scholars from a range of disciplines have produced numerous books and conferences on the topic of reconciliation around the world over the past two decades. This book provides a literary genealogy of the concept in Ireland, where W.B. Yeats, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Tom Paulin, and Seamus Heaney have all associated it, paradoxically enough, with Sophoclean tragedy. In the early twentieth century Yeats borrowed a theory of cultural Hellenism from Matthew Arnold in order to promote the Abbey Theatre as a reconciling institution in the Irish ... Read more
Largely inspired by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s, scholars from a range of disciplines have produced numerous books and conferences on the topic of reconciliation around the world over the past two decades. This book provides a literary genealogy of the concept in Ireland, where W.B. Yeats, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Tom Paulin, and Seamus Heaney have all associated it, paradoxically enough, with Sophoclean tragedy. In the early twentieth century Yeats borrowed a theory of cultural Hellenism from Matthew Arnold in order to promote the Abbey Theatre as a reconciling institution in the Irish ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782050681
SKU
V9781782050681
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About Nathan Wallace
Nathan Wallace is an Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State University, Marion, Ohio
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