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Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Published
2008
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • English literature
  • Primitivism
  • History and criticism
  • Primitivism in literature
  • Irish authors
  • History
  • LITERARY CRITICISM

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.