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| Titre : | "Into the West" : The West of Ireland in the Writings of French Travellers (2015) |
| Auteurs : | Grace NEVILLE, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 40 n 1 2015) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 259-271 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Through nine texts written between the late eighteenth and early twentieth century and representative of a far larger corpus, this study focuses on depictions of the west of Ireland by French travellers of that period. The west looks not Irish but Spanish (people's physiognommy, their clothes, urban and rural landscapes). For some commentators, the west is exotic but also "authentic" in its loyalty to old ways (religion and language, for instance). They deplore the homogenising power of encroaching modernity. Others lambast old ways as proof of primitivism and even degeneracy |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Rennes |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Grace Neville |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
