Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Writing (Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs): 11 - Softcover

Carroll, Clare

9780268022747: Circe's Cup: Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Writing (Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays and Monographs): 11

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268022747 ISBN 13: 9780268022747

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002

Circe's Cup is a collection of eight essays that investigate the role writing played in transforming early modern Irish culture. This radical new assessment of culture and conflict in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland covers a wide range of topics, including ethnography, translation practices, and political philosophy. Taking its title from the metaphor of "Circe's Cup,"which was used by Old and New English writers to describe the corrupting influence they attributed to Irish culture, this collection presents a new perspective on colonial theory. Clare Carroll's essays cross disciplines, cultures, and languages to examine various modes of discourse, such as those of gender, religion, and ethnicity. History, poetry, philology, and political science are read side by side to ferret out examples of cultural change. Carroll's account considers both English and Irish language sources, and contrasts them to French, Spanish, and Italian texts. Circe's Cup argues for the need to see similarities between Irish and English texts, while at the same time focusing on the sharp, and often irreconcilable, difference between the two.

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Circe's Cup Provides a new and radical assessment of cultural transformation and conflict in early modern Ireland. Full description

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"Clare Carroll is a learned and insightful scholar of early modern Ireland. . . . ."--The Sixteenth Century Journal

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