Irish Culture and “The People”
Populism and its Discontents
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2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-285841-2 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-285841-2 (ISBN)
This study argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Synthesizing existing scholarship on populism, it explores how Irish texts have evoked 'The People'--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--while also examining literary critiques of Irish populisms.
This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force.
Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked "The People"--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms.
This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent new ones. Sometimes, as in the middle period of W.B. Yeats's work, populism forces a writer into impossible stances, spurring ever greater rhetorical and poetic creativity. At other times, as in the critiques of Anna Parnell or Myles na gCopaleen, authors penetrate the rhetoric fog of populist discourse and expose the hollowness of its claims. Yet in both politics and culture, populism can be a generative force.
Daniel O'Connell, and later the Land League, utilized populist discourse to advance Irish political freedom and expand rights. The most powerful works of Lady Gregory and Ernie O'Malley are their portraits of The People that borrows from the populist vocabulary. While we must be critical of populist discourse, we dismiss it at our loss. This study synthesizes existing scholarship on populism to explore how Irish texts have evoked "The People"--a crucial rhetorical move for populist discourse--and how some writers have critiqued, adopted, and adapted the languages of Irish populisms.
Seamus O'Malley is Associate Professor of English at Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (OUP, 2015) and has published widely on British and Irish modernist literature, as well as graphic novels. He has co-edited two books on Ford Madox Ford, and one on the cartoonists Julie Doucet and Gabrielle Bell.
Introduction
1: The Populism of the Long Nineteenth Century
2: "Land for the People!" Land League and its Critics
3: Lady Gregory and the Voice of The People
4: Yeats and The People against Populism
5: "THE PEOPLE" of the Easter Rising
6: Governing The People
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | 19 Illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 164 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 622 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-285841-6 / 0192858416 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-285841-2 / 9780192858412 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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