Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival

by Sinïad Garrigan Mattar

Overview

What is the relevance of the Irish Revival to modernism? Why did Yeats's vision of a theatre for Ireland take a ritual form? What was so incendiary about J. M. Synge's vision of the Irish peasantry? These are among the questions that Garrigan Mattar seeks to answer by exploring the primitivism of the Irish Revival in relation to comparative science.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199268955
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/06/2004
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Pembroke College, Cambridge University

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Rise of Celtology
2. Yeats, Celticism, and Comparative Science
3. Yeats's Ritual of Revolt
4. The Passing of the Shee: John Millington Synge
5. Lady Gregory: The Primitive Picturesque
Conclusion