Judith Remy Leder

• Synge's Riders to the Sea

  Judith Remy Leder•ARTICLE•Twentieth Century Literature•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 1

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  John Millington Synge had a tendency to romanticize Irish peasant life: in The Aran Islands, for example, Synge presented the islanders as naive and charming primitives whose lives, while not Edenic, were largely and happily unspoiled by contact with the modern world. Most critical opinion of the last eighty-five years has at least tacitly accepted this image of Synge's peasants.' A criticism informed by contemporary anthropological insights sugg…

• Synge's Riders to the Sea

  Judith Remy Leder•ARTICLE•Twentieth Century Literature•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 1

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  John Millington Synge had a tendency to romanticize Irish peasant life: in The Aran Islands, for example, Synge presented the islanders as naive and charming primitives whose lives, while not Edenic, were largely and happily unspoiled by contact with the modern world. Most critical opinion of the last eighty-five years has at least tacitly accepted this image of Synge's peasants.' A criticism informed by contemporary anthropological insights sugg…

• Synge's Riders to the Sea

  Judith Remy Leder•ARTICLE•Twentieth Century Literature•1990•Cited by: 2•References: 1

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  John Millington Synge had a tendency to romanticize Irish peasant life: in The Aran Islands, for example, Synge presented the islanders as naive and charming primitives whose lives, while not Edenic, were largely and happily unspoiled by contact with the modern world. Most critical opinion of the last eighty-five years has at least tacitly accepted this image of Synge's peasants.' A criticism informed by contemporary anthropological insights sugg…

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