“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
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1457462023-03-11T20:06:28Z “Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice : Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett” Barlow, Richard School of Humanities Humanities::Literature Celticism Romanticism 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. Accepted version 2021-01-07T01:00:04Z 2021-01-07T01:00:04Z 2019 Journal Article Barlow, R. (2019). “Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice : Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett”. Irish Studies Review, 27(4), 473-492. doi:10.1080/09670882.2019.1657611 0967-0882 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145746 10.1080/09670882.2019.1657611 4 27 473 492 en Irish Studies Review This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis in Irish Studies Review on 02 Sep 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09670882.2019.1657611 application/pdf
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“Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice : Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett”
description 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.
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