Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive (New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature)

By Maria McGarrity and Claire A. Culleton

Book Overview

This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349376981
• ISBN13: 9781349376988
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"