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Revival in the West: Emily Lawless’s and J. M. Synge’s Islands of Authenticity
No full textGiulia Bruna, in her chapter, offers a comparative framework for discussing the different strategies of J. M. Synge and Emily Lawless for achieving an authentic representation of the otherworldly geography of the Aran Islands, which was so much a part of the folklore of the region. Synge’s The Aran Islands, often treated as a spiritual autobiography, offers a way of reading the West of Ireland that complicates our understanding of authentic Irishness. While he derives a sense of authenticity through largely documentary and ethnographic rather than fictional means, Lawless, in Grania, captures an authentic sense of rural Ireland through the formal arrangements of the novel. Bruna is concerned with identifying, in Synge’s and Lawless’s work, modes of plural and dialogic authenticity that recognizes the “parasitic” relation of culture to nature. Bruna concludes that their versions of authenticity, though different in methodology, serve the same revivalist purpose of shaping Irish cultures for future generations
J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival
No full textBetween the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow published in various periodicals, and his articles for the Manchester Guardian about rural poverty in Connemara and Mayo. Although Synge’s nonfiction is often considered of minor weight compared with his drama, Bruna argues persuasively that his travel narratives are instances of a pioneering ethnographic and journalistic imagination.
J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival is the first comprehensive study of Synge’s travel writing about Ireland, compiled during the zeitgeist of the preindependence Revival movement. Bruna argues that Synge’s nonfiction subverts inherited modes of travel writing that put an emphasis on Empire and Nation. Synge’s writing challenges these grand narratives by expressing a more complex idea of Irishness grounded in his empathetic observation of the local rural communities he traveled amongst. Drawing from critically neglected revivalist travel literature, newspapers and periodicals, and visual and archival documents, Bruna sketches a new portrait of a seminal Irish Literary Renaissance figure and sheds new light on the itineraries of activism and literary engagement of the broader Revival movement
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna, Apparences trompeuses
No full textRicercatrice presso il Centro Studi Americanistici “Circolo Amerindiano” ed eminente specialista dell’area circumpolare, Giulia Bogliolo Bruna inserisce lo studio intrapreso in Apparences trompeuses nel quadro di una riflessione che, attraverso la lucida e approfondita rilettura del patrimonio artistico, contribuisce alla riscoperta di tradizioni relegate per secoli ai margini della cultura occidentale, nonché dei molteplici percorsi simbolici di espressione che tale produzione nascondeva nel..
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna, Jean Malaurie, une énergie créatrice, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 339
No full textBook review of Giulia Bogliolo Bruna, Jean Malaurie, une énergie créatrice, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 339.Recensione di Giulia Bogliolo Bruna, Jean Malaurie, une énergie créatrice, Paris, Armand Colin, 2012, pp. 339
Giulia Bogliolo Bruna. Les objets messagers de la pensée inuit
No full textSuite à son précédent ouvrage intitulé Apparences trompeuses, Giulia Bogliolo Bruna aborde les objets inuit dans leur dimension polysémique en privilégiant leur essence symbolique. Ces objets révèlent une conception du monde, du temps et du rapport entre l’homme et le cosmos et sont appréhendés dans cette ontologie spécifique. L’analyse de l’auteure s’enroule autour de l’axe matière/esprit en décillant notre regard de prime abord esthétique. Pour tous les découvreurs qui, au fil des siècles,..
Erminda Rentoul Esler's “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women's Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story
No full textThis article illuminates the life and work of Irish-born novelist, short-story writer, and periodical columnist Erminda Rentoul Esler (1860?–1924), who lived and worked in London from the 1890s onwards. First, the essay documents Esler's participation in various literary and social networks in London. These “physical” networks included London-based Irish revivalist groups where she interacted with other Irish and London-Irish writers, and early feminist groups such as New Women and suffragists (e.g., the Women Writers’ Suffrage League). Second, the essay explores Esler's equally important engagement with “virtual” networks of readers through her collaboration with English periodicals (women's magazines) and her local-colour stories. As this article will show, Esler's local-colour fiction of the 1890s is a critical node that joins together and interrogates discourses surrounding Irishness, the New Woman, and the transnational dimension of the regional story. Reasserting Esler's presence in the London literary marketplace and in Irish diasporic circuits highlights the complexity of regional, diasporic, and religious varieties of Irish identity that were being negotiated at the turn of the twentieth century. Her involvement also underscores the importance of these networks of sociability to encourage women's participation in society through education, professionalism, and the vote
<em> ‘In the Heart of the Roman Metropolis’: an Italian Prologue to Synge’s Investigative Journalism</em>
No full textThis article explores Synge’s trip to Italy and his sojourn in Rome in 1896. It will document his immersion into Italian culture as well as touching on the significance of his trip to Rome in light of his successive artistic career. The outcomes of Synge’s Italian journey translated into a newspaper report for the Irish Times which discusses the riots in Piazza Montecitorio caused by Prime Minister Francesco Crispi’s resignation after the Italian defeat by the Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik, during the first Italo-Abyssinian war. This essay will read Synge’s newspaper report “The Demonstrations in Rome (by an eyewitness)” as an antecedent to his travel narratives for the nuanced portrayal of the rioting crowd and his methodological approach from the field – hallmarks of his subsequent prose as evident, for example, in The Aran Islands (1907) and in the Manchester Guardian series “In the Congested Districts” (1905)
Periodical Insurrections: Revival, Modernism, and the Irish Review
No full textItem does not contain fulltextKnown for having among its editors revolutionaries who died in the 1916 Easter Rising and for combining militant Manifestos of the Irish Volunteers with revivalist literary work, the Irish Review (1911-14) also engaged with wider modernist movements, trends, and periodical culture. Building on recent criticism on the periodical, on scholarship about Revival and modernist print cultures, and on archival material (editors’ letters, business correspondence, and ephemera), this essay illuminates the Review’s transnational and transatlantic connections with contemporaneous literary magazines in Ireland, Europe, and the USA. In the analysis of the Review’s contents and modus operandi, this essay draws attention to the Review as a critically neglected conduit that joins rather than separates revivalism and modernism.27 p
The Irish Revival En Route. The Travel Writing of William Bulfin and Robert Lynd
No full textItem does not contain fulltextTravel writing about Ireland composed by Irish artists and activists affiliated with Revival movements proliferated in transnational print media at the turn of the twentieth century and participated in the decolonising impetus of many revivalist initiatives. First this article maps itineraries of activism trodden by these Irish travel writers, and then subsequently examines two case-studies of expatriate Irish journalists and activists, William Bulfin (1863–1910) and Robert Lynd (1879–1949), who published travel books. Both travelled around Ireland and reported on it from the perspective of diasporic groups, the Irish in Argentina for Bulfin and the Irish in London for Lynd. This article argues that their travel books – Bulfin’s Rambles in Éirinn (1907) and Lynd’s Rambles in Ireland (1912) – complicate the geographies of activism of the Revival, illuminating the international outreach of Revival movements. Moreover, these texts also problematise essentialist notions of Irish identity and expose some of the contradictions inherent in the modernising and conservationist impulses of the Revival project.14 p
Ian Maclaren’s Scottish Local-Colour Fiction in Transnational Contexts. Networks of Reception, Circulation, and Translation in the United States and Europe
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