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Shakespeares wake : appropriation and cultural politics in Dublin, 1867-1922
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Putz, Adam (2010) Shakespeares wake : appropriation and cultural politics in Dublin, 1867-1922. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
William Shakespeare has led a rich and varied afterlife in Ireland. That this
history documents the development of distinct Shakespeares in circulation
during different periods also reveals unique possibilities for understanding the
relationship between the literatures of England and Ireland at particular cultural
moments. Shakespeares Wake: Appropriation and Cultural Politics in Dublin,
1867-1922, interrogates the ways in which the contentious Anglo-Irish cultural
politics that obtained in Dublin between the Fenian and Easter risings shaped
the Shakespeares of Matthew Arnold’s lectures On the Study of Celtic Literature
(1867), Edward Dowden’s Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875),
and the early essays of W. B. Yeats first collected in Ideas of Good and Evil (1903)
and The Cutting of an Agate (1912). But James Joyce’s own (ab)use of the
Shakespearean text in Ulysses (1922) underscores the instability of the binary
oppositions with which Arnold, Dowden, and Yeats had each constructed their
appropriations, demonstrating the pernicious manner in which the terms of Anglo-Irish cultural politics had come to mediate the relationship between the
colonial reading subject and its object in Dublin during the late nineteenth
century. Joyce’s Shakespeare in this way marks the point where the discourse of
literary history ends and that of the literary as such starts.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century, Ireland -- Civilization -- 19th century, Ireland -- Civilization -- 20th century | ||||
Official Date: | October 2010 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Bate, Jonathan ; Docherty, Thomas, 1955- | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick ; British Association for Irish Studies | ||||
Extent: | 282 p. : ill. | ||||
Language: | eng |
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