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Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press)
Joseph Lennon
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Hardcover. Centuries before W.B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Num Pages: 478 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 862.
Centuries before W. B. Years wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Relying on cultural and postcolonial theory, Joseph Lennon examines Irish impressions of Asia and West Asia, understood together as the Orient in the West. British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote border land inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythians - barbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the ... Read more
Centuries before W. B. Years wove Indian, Japanese, and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage. Relying on cultural and postcolonial theory, Joseph Lennon examines Irish impressions of Asia and West Asia, understood together as the Orient in the West. British writers from Cambrensis to Spenser depicted Ireland as a remote border land inhabited by wild descendants of Asian Scythians - barbarians to the ancient Greeks. Contemporaneous Irish writers likewise borrowed classical traditions, imagining the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815630449
SKU
V9780815630449
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About Joseph Lennon
Joseph Lennon, assistant professor of English at Manhattan College, has published poetry and essays on literature and culture in a number of journals and anthologies. He is poetry editor of The Recorder, a publication of the American Irish Historical Society.
Reviews for Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History (Syracuse University Press)
A fascinating read, inaugurating its subject with style and substance and opening a whole new critical conversation. A fascinating study of the parallels between Orientalism and Celticism. Original, provocative, and compelling. Its central thesis—that a tradition of Irish contact. . . . existed with Asia and North . . . is startling. The author's exhaustive research is evident and his ... Read more