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Some critics polarize Joyce and Yeats by invoking the Irish Literary Revival. I want to question this practice, of which the most extreme instance is Len Platt's Joyce and the Anglo-Irish (): 'The Joyce text . . . is devoted to an undermining of revivalism's status as cultural nationalism, and to a displacement of the Yeatsian Protestant tradition from the round tower of Irish literary culture.. . . The social and cultural gulf between Joyce and Yeats finds expression in two aesthetics so different as to be radically incompatible.'  Such binary readings often had a context in the Northern Irish Troubles, but their effect continues. In The Strong Spirit (), Andrew Gibson again set Joyce against 'the revivalism of the s', calling this 'very much the preserve of a privileged class and thriving on its English connection'.  Yet, as Clare Hutton has shown, the 'Scylla and Charybdis' chapter of Ulysses provides a far more nuanced sociocultural snapshot of Dublin literati circa : here Joyce 'acknowledg[es] the complexity of literary traditions in Ireland'.  The catch-all (or catch-some) category 'revivalism' is a retrospective imposition. In Stephen Hero 'the compact bod

Author

Longley, Edna

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN