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Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, MacDiarmid and Jones

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.

Gregory Baker (Catholic University of America, Washington DC)

  • Cambridge University Press
  • 9781108844864
  • 320 pages
  • €87.53
  • Hardback
  • United Kingdom
  • Classical history / classical civilisation