“Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice : Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett”

This essay surveys responses to Macpherson’s Ossian in Irish literature, alongside analysis of the development of literary Celticism. Despite being a key text behind the development of Celticism in Irish writing, Ossian is consciously rejected in Irish Romanticism and in the Celtic Revival. However,...

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Main Author: Barlow, Richard
Other Authors: School of Humanities
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145746
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:This essay surveys responses to Macpherson’s Ossian in Irish literature, alongside analysis of the development of literary Celticism. Despite being a key text behind the development of Celticism in Irish writing, Ossian is consciously rejected in Irish Romanticism and in the Celtic Revival. However, Ossian becomes a symbol of literary recycling and mental fragmentation in Irish Modernism. Texts studied in this essay include Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and Beckett’s Murphy.