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Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish LiteratureCasting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish Literature: Casting Cathleen: Femininity... [On 3 December 1911, Lady Augusta Gregory informed The New York Times Magazine that she did not believe “Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don’t think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish. What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it’s a great country for conversation. Oscar Wilde said: ‘We are the best talkers since the Greeks’” (Mikhail 1977, 58). While her comments were polemic, according to Gregory an Irish gift for gab unquestionably yielded a national affinity to drama. But was this correlation simply a symptom of her investment in Yeats, Synge and the budding national theater or was there any substance in her claims? Gregory’s statements pre-date Joyce’s Ulysses and the relative flood of Irish novels of the late twentieth century but her advocacy of the notion of a gift for conversation as essentially Irish was certainly in keeping with her relationship to language systems as they were spoken in Ireland.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Language, Identity and Liberation in Contemporary Irish LiteratureCasting Cathleen: Femininity and Motherhood on the Contemporary Irish Stage

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
ISBN
978-1-349-31489-8
Pages
136 –175
DOI
10.1057/9780230275089_5
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[On 3 December 1911, Lady Augusta Gregory informed The New York Times Magazine that she did not believe “Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don’t think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish. What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it’s a great country for conversation. Oscar Wilde said: ‘We are the best talkers since the Greeks’” (Mikhail 1977, 58). While her comments were polemic, according to Gregory an Irish gift for gab unquestionably yielded a national affinity to drama. But was this correlation simply a symptom of her investment in Yeats, Synge and the budding national theater or was there any substance in her claims? Gregory’s statements pre-date Joyce’s Ulysses and the relative flood of Irish novels of the late twentieth century but her advocacy of the notion of a gift for conversation as essentially Irish was certainly in keeping with her relationship to language systems as they were spoken in Ireland.]

Published: Oct 9, 2015

Keywords: Language System; Speech Pattern; Irish Woman; Language Pattern; Irish Theater

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