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The Hellenism and Reconciliation in Ireland from Yeats to Field Day
Nathan Wallace
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Hardback. This book is a genealogy of reconciliation in modern Ireland. As Seamus Deane has written, reconciliation stands at a nexus between politics and aesthetics in Irish writing, and has therefore often been a vehicle of colonial ideology. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
Largely inspired by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the 1990s, scholars from a range of disciplines have produced numerous books and conferences on the topic of reconciliation around the world over the past two decades. This book provides a literary genealogy of the concept in Ireland, where W.B. Yeats, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Tom Paulin, and Seamus Heaney have all associated it, paradoxically enough, with Sophoclean tragedy. In the early twentieth century Yeats borrowed a theory of cultural Hellenism from Matthew Arnold in order to promote the Abbey Theatre as a reconciling institution in the Irish Free State. In the 1960s Conor Cruise O'Brien espoused Arnoldian Hellenism but nevertheless used Antigone as an analogy for explaining why reconciliation in Northern Ireland was impossible. In the 1980s, the Field Day Theatre Company revived the Aristotelian notion that drama - exemplified by Sophoclean tragedy - was a civic art that could promote the cause of reconciliation. For example, in his The Riot Act: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (1984), Tom Paulin explored the conflict between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.Heaney was also at that time beginning to associate Sophoclean choruses with the poetry of human rights. This study culminates with a genealogical analysis of Heaney's The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1990), a play whose "hope and history" chorus came to be often quoted during the Northern Irish peace process.
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781782050681
SKU
V9781782050681
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About Nathan Wallace
Nathan Wallace is an Assistant Professor of English, Ohio State University, Marion, Ohio
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