Sinéad Garrigan Mattar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2018225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sinéad Garrigan Mattar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sinéad Garrigan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattar |
| SIGNATURE | MATTAR S G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yeats, Fairies, and the New Animism
During the last two decades, social scientists have rethought what is understood as "animism" by reading the evidences of contemporary animistic ontologies as contrary to the concept of animism inherited from Victorian comparative anthropology. By investigating W. B. Yeats's antimaterialist plundering of "materialist philosophy" in the service of an animism he refused to acknowledge as such, Garrigan Mattar argues that the time is ripe to rethink…
Yeats, Celticism, and Comparative Science
William Butler Yeats wrote poetry and plays that were part and parcel of a quest to lead the Irish towards their ‘proper dark’, and the most important period in the formulation of his view of this ‘dark’ was that when he was most actively engaged in both the collection of folklore and the study of comparative anthropology — the 1890s. In the course of that decade (and the first few years of the 20th century), Yeats's understanding and vision of t…
Yeats’s Ritual of Revolt
It is in his dramatic work that there is most evidence of William Butler Yeats's reading of comparative science. Given both Yeats's literary primitivism and his supernaturalism, it was inevitable that he should look to the religio-mythic origins of theatre when creating a drama in reaction against what he perceived as an over-modern stage. Yeats's very involvement in the theatre in Ireland was an extension of his interest in creating rituals for …
The Passing of the Shee: John Millington Synge
The Rise of Celtology
In his famous 1860 lectures ‘On the Study of Celtic Literature’, Matthew Arnold argued that the time was ripe for a reassessment of what was meant by the term ‘Celticism’. In the latter half of the century, the burgeoning of comparative science transformed the way that Celtic culture was viewed, and this development bifurcated Celticism in a way which persists to this day. The confirmation of links between Celtic and Sanskrit was both a turning a…
Introduction: Our Proper Dark
This book examines the work of the first three directors of the Abbey Theatre — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge — and in each case suggests the nature of their personal primitivism and the extent to which it was influenced by comparative science. It discusses how critics ignored the existence of Celtology — the scientific, comparative study of Celtic culture, language, and literature that developed in the 1870s — and…
Conclusion
The primitivism of the Irish Revival has been misunderstood for too long because its complex and varied politics have been seen as depending on a particularly uncomplicated attitude towards the past. This book has shown that William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge all looked to the past — and to contemporary survivals of the past — as it was envisaged by comparative scientists or (in the case of Lady Gregory) by travellers a…
Lady Gregory: The Primitive Picturesque
Where William Butler Yeats laid the foundations of his literary primitivism by immersing himself in occult studies, and where John Millington Synge immersed himself in comparative science, Lady Gregory was immersed in a colonial context and read widely in the literature of colonialism and colonial travel. Rather than questioning the relationship between the civilised and the primitive mind, Lady Gregory adopts an assumption of noble sameness and …
Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival
The literature of the Irish Revival of the 1890s should be seen as a hinge between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its authors appropriated the ‘primitive’ through the lenses of comparative anthropology, mythology, and colonial travel-writing, and actively strove to re-establish contact with primitive modes through ‘the study of mythology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis’. They were engaged in a complex and volitional primitivism, which became ‘mod…
Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival
The literature of the Irish Revival of the 1890s should be seen as a hinge between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its authors appropriated the ‘primitive’ through the lenses of comparative anthropology, mythology, and colonial travel-writing, and actively strove to re-establish contact with primitive modes through ‘the study of mythology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis’. They were engaged in a complex and volitional primitivism, which became ‘mod…
Yeats, Fairies, and the New Animism
During the last two decades, social scientists have rethought what is understood as "animism" by reading the evidences of contemporary animistic ontologies as contrary to the concept of animism inherited from Victorian comparative anthropology. By investigating W. B. Yeats's antimaterialist plundering of "materialist philosophy" in the service of an animism he refused to acknowledge as such, Garrigan Mattar argues that the time is ripe to rethink…
Yeats, Celticism, and Comparative Science
William Butler Yeats wrote poetry and plays that were part and parcel of a quest to lead the Irish towards their ‘proper dark’, and the most important period in the formulation of his view of this ‘dark’ was that when he was most actively engaged in both the collection of folklore and the study of comparative anthropology — the 1890s. In the course of that decade (and the first few years of the 20th century), Yeats's understanding and vision of t…
Yeats’s Ritual of Revolt
It is in his dramatic work that there is most evidence of William Butler Yeats's reading of comparative science. Given both Yeats's literary primitivism and his supernaturalism, it was inevitable that he should look to the religio-mythic origins of theatre when creating a drama in reaction against what he perceived as an over-modern stage. Yeats's very involvement in the theatre in Ireland was an extension of his interest in creating rituals for …
The Passing of the Shee: John Millington Synge
The Rise of Celtology
In his famous 1860 lectures ‘On the Study of Celtic Literature’, Matthew Arnold argued that the time was ripe for a reassessment of what was meant by the term ‘Celticism’. In the latter half of the century, the burgeoning of comparative science transformed the way that Celtic culture was viewed, and this development bifurcated Celticism in a way which persists to this day. The confirmation of links between Celtic and Sanskrit was both a turning a…
Introduction: Our Proper Dark
This book examines the work of the first three directors of the Abbey Theatre — William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge — and in each case suggests the nature of their personal primitivism and the extent to which it was influenced by comparative science. It discusses how critics ignored the existence of Celtology — the scientific, comparative study of Celtic culture, language, and literature that developed in the 1870s — and…
Conclusion
The primitivism of the Irish Revival has been misunderstood for too long because its complex and varied politics have been seen as depending on a particularly uncomplicated attitude towards the past. This book has shown that William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge all looked to the past — and to contemporary survivals of the past — as it was envisaged by comparative scientists or (in the case of Lady Gregory) by travellers a…
Lady Gregory: The Primitive Picturesque
Where William Butler Yeats laid the foundations of his literary primitivism by immersing himself in occult studies, and where John Millington Synge immersed himself in comparative science, Lady Gregory was immersed in a colonial context and read widely in the literature of colonialism and colonial travel. Rather than questioning the relationship between the civilised and the primitive mind, Lady Gregory adopts an assumption of noble sameness and …
Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival
The literature of the Irish Revival of the 1890s should be seen as a hinge between the 19th and 20th centuries. Its authors appropriated the ‘primitive’ through the lenses of comparative anthropology, mythology, and colonial travel-writing, and actively strove to re-establish contact with primitive modes through ‘the study of mythology, anthropology, and psychoanalysis’. They were engaged in a complex and volitional primitivism, which became ‘mod…
Yeats, Fairies, and the New Animism
During the last two decades, social scientists have rethought what is understood as "animism" by reading the evidences of contemporary animistic ontologies as contrary to the concept of animism inherited from Victorian comparative anthropology. By investigating W. B. Yeats's antimaterialist plundering of "materialist philosophy" in the service of an animism he refused to acknowledge as such, Garrigan Mattar argues that the time is ripe to rethink…
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Irish (5 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Mythology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Celtic languages (3 works)