Cosmopolitanism at Home: Ireland's Playboys from Celtic Revival to Celtic Tiger.

At the end of J. M. Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World," Christy Mahon departs for a cosmopolitan future at the very moment he demands personal and national sovereignty. This article examines why that conflicted gesture has proven so troubling in literary history. Christy's ambivalent combina...

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Publicado en:Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 45 - 65
Autor principal: Townsend, Sarah L.
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Indiana University Press Winter2011
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