Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime?reveals the Primitive Sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Irelands artistic production and the wider global cultural production of Postcolonial literature.?
Chapter One: Introduction
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Chapter Two: Performing the Primitive Sublime: the Celtic Revival and Irish Indigeneity
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Chapter Three: James Joyce and the Primitive Sublime: from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
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Chapter Four: Mid-century Malaise and Desublimation in Samuel Beckett, Flann OBrien, Kate OBrien, and Edna OBrien
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Chapter Five: The Living Dead: the Late Century Resurgence of the Primitive Sublime in works by Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Brian Friel
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Chapter Six: Primitive Sublime Terror: Writing New York after 9/11 in ONeill, McCann, and T?ib?n
Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Irelands artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature. A concern for and anxiety about the primitive persists within modern Irish culture. The otherness within and beyond Irelands borders offers writers, from the Celtic Revival through independence and partition to post-9/11, a seductive call through which to negotiate Irish identity. Ultimately, the disquieting awe of the primitive sublime is not simply a momentary recognition of Irelands primitive indigenous history but a repeated rhetorical gesture that beckons a transcendent elation brought about by the recognition of the troubled, ritualistic and salS
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