"Celticism, ballad transmission, and the schizoid voice: Ossianic fragments in Owenson, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett". Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barlow, Richard
• Is Part Of: Irish studies review. Volume 27:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 473
• Page End: 492
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Celticism -- Romanticism -- Modernism; Ireland -- Periodicals; English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Irish literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Irish periodicals; 941.5
• DOI: 10.1080/09670882.2019.1657611
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0967-0882

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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 .