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Irish modernism and the global primitive

by Maria McGarrity, Claire A. Culleton · 2008

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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.

Subject
historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thisliterary criticismliterary criticismMore like thisLess of this
Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIrelandIrelandMore like thisLess of thisEuropeanEuropeanMore like thisLess of thisScotlandScotlandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 244 pages

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