Download or read book Irish Modernism and the Global Primitive written by C. Culleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection.