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Yeats and Joyce - Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition (Paperback)
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Yeats and Joyce - Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition (Paperback)
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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 themselves used to challenge
representation in the postcolonial era. Despite their very
different histories, Cormack suggests, these two writers can be
seen as allies in their insistence on the heresy of the
imagination. Reinvigorating and politicising the history of ideas
as a powerful medium for studying literature, he shows that Joyce
and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they
identified with empire. Both celebrated Ireland as destabilising
the accepted forms of thought and the accepted means of narrating
the nation. Thus, 'unreadable' modernist works such as Finnegans
Wake and A Vision must be understood as attempts to reconceptualise
history in a literally postcolonial period.
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