Man Who Does Not Exist Man Who Does Not Exist Iris

by Deborah Fleming

A man who does not exist is about just that- the Irish peasant as an imaginative construct. Yeats and Synge were two of the writers who established the terms of an argument that has affected all subsequent Irish politics as well as literature. The Revivalists' task was to counter English stereotypes- the cavorting, drunken Paddy who, while entertaining and colorful, was not to be trusted to govern himself- and to provide a cultural context for the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472105817
• ISBN13: 9780472105816
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 224 Pages