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- Daniel Corkery's Cultural Criticism: Selected Writings
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Cork University Press
summary
Daniel Corkery was the most influential and provocative cultural critic of the early Irish Free State. Since the 1960s, Corkery’s name, however, has become increasingly synonymous with a narrow-gauge nationalism that, in the eyes of many, has sought to stifle an emerging ‘modern’ Ireland. This publication makes the case for a reassessment of Corkery’s cultural criticism, and reveals that the commonplace depiction of a parochial and racist Corkery, while not entirely groundless, is based on a reading of his critical writings that is both selective and reductive. Corkery’s cultural criticism is viewed in this book, not as the product of a backward-looking and insular nationalism, but as intellectual work within an international context of anti-colonialism.
Table of Contents
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- Chronology of Corkery’s Life
- pp. xiii-xxiii
- Further Reading
- pp. 15-16
- The Modernisation of Irish poetry
- pp. 20-22
- The Hidden Ireland
- pp. 22-41
- Eoghan Ruadh Ó Súilleabháin
- pp. 41-72
- The Philosophy of the Gaelic League
- pp. 72-81
- Part Two: Representing Ireland
- pp. 101-156
- Mr. Yeats in Cork
- pp. 103-105
- The Peasant in Literature
- pp. 105-107
- The Literature of Collapse
- pp. 109-112
- On Anglo-Irish Literature
- pp. 112-131
- The Playboy of the Western World
- pp. 131-149
- Jack B. Yeats Once More
- pp. 153-156
- Part Three: The Nation and the State
- pp. 157-175
- Their First Fault
- pp. 159-161
- A Landscape in the West
- pp. 162-164
- The Book I am Writing Now
- pp. 164-168
- The Struggle Between Native and Colonist
- pp. 168-170
- A Story of Two Indians
- pp. 171-173
- What is a Nation?
- pp. 173-175
- Part Four: Contemporary Reception
- A New Chapter of History: The Hidden Ireland
- pp. 179-180
- Gaelic Poets of Munster
- pp. 180-182
- The Other Hidden Ireland
- pp. 186-191
- An Irish ‘Provincial'
- pp. 192-193
- Synge and Irish Life1
- pp. 193-197
- Corkery’s Synge
- pp. 197-199
- Synge and Ireland
- pp. 199-201
- Daniel Corkery on Synge
- pp. 201-203
- Synge and Irish Literature
- pp. 203-210
- Correspondence: The Heart Has Reasons
- pp. 210-211
- Correspondence: Have We a Literature?
- pp. 212-213
- Ireland Reads – Trash!
- pp. 213-215
- Irish – An Empty Barrell?
- pp. 220-224
- Correspondence: The Spirit of the Nation
- pp. 224-225
- The Emancipation of Irish Writers
- pp. 225-230
- Daniel Corkery
- pp. 230-231
- Let Ireland Pride – in What She Has
- pp. 232-234
- King of the Beggars
- pp. 234-236
Additional Information
ISBN
9781908634153
Related ISBN(s)
9781859184554
MARC Record
OCLC
808778107
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No