| Standish O'Grady Ae and Yeats: History Politics Culture Contributor(s): McAteer, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0716527340 ISBN-13: 9780716527343 Publisher: Irish Academic Press OUR PRICE: $47.03 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2002 Annotation: Standish OGrady was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival whose work has received scant attention. The new assessment situates his literary, historical and political writing in its European intellectual context and considers the far-reaching implications of his work for intellectual activity in contemporary Ireland. McAteer argues that attempts to read him as either unionist or nationalist overlook the essentially contradictory nature of his writing. As a man of letters who believed that literature divorced from history was pernicious, and as an historian who believed that history divorced from imagination was no more history than a skeleton is a man, OGrady internalised yet looked beyond the divisions that continue to structure intellectual debate in Ireland today, whether in terms of history against literature, fact against theory or, most recently, revisionism against post-colonialism. By so doing, McAteer claims he provided the framework for a new form of politics that f |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 828.809 |
| LCCN: 2002017242 |
| Physical Information: 200 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Standish O ? ? ? -Grady was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival whose work has received scant attention. The new assessment situates his literary, historical and political writing in its European intellectual context and considers the far-reaching implications of his work for intellectual activity in contemporary Ireland. McAteer argues that attempts to read him as either unionist or nationalist overlook the essentially contradictory nature of his writing. As a man of letters who believed that literature divorced from history was pernicious, and as an historian who believed that history divorced from imagination was ? ? ? no more history than a skeleton is a man ? ? ? -, O ? ? ? -Grady internalised yet looked beyond the divisions that continue to structure intellectual debate in Ireland today, whether in terms of history against literature, fact against theory or, most recently, revisionism against post-colonialism. By so doing, McAteer claims he provided the framework for a new form of politics that found its expression in the ideology of co-operation, developed by George Russell, an ideology that attempted to transcend the nationalist ? ? ? unionist divide at the start of this century. In addition, O ? ? ? -Grady ? ? ? -s work influenced the manner in which W.B. Yeats understood history in his early work, particularly ? ? ? The Wanderings of Oisin ? ? ? -. Far from being the relatively minor figure he has come to be seen as, O ? ? ? -Grady created a body of literature that is directly relevant to any contemporary understanding of modernity, and that suggests a way of examining long-standing divisions in Ireland without contributing to their perpetuation. |