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By Mark Williams
In the midst of the Celtic Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, W.B. Yeats implored his Irish literary compatriots to “go where Homer went.” It was an audacious urging, to formalize a relationship between Ireland’s mythological pantheon and the classical gods of ancient continental Europe, to write into existence as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the Greco-Roman deities held in the popular canonic imagination. The task, taken on by Yeats, as well as writers like George Russell, Austin Clarke, and Lady Gregory, was somewhat complicated by the fact that until the century prior, the mere intellectual concept of a native pantheon of Irish gods was unavailable to Irish writers, having largely been abandoned by the late middle ages. Moreover, writes Mark Williams in his excellent new book on the subject of Irish gods, they are notorious shape shifters.
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Review of Jonathan Marks,
Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Defense of Liberal Education. Princeton University Press, February 2021, 232 pages, $27.95.
Jonathan Marks, Professor of Politics at Ursinus College, has written an important and timely book that should interest anyone, left, right, or center, concerned about higher education in general and the campus anti-Israel movement in particular.
Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra
Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia event to hear Durba Mitra discuss her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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Sponsored by: Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department, Society of Fellows, Women s Gender and Sexuality Studies
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How did deviant female sexuality become foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project? And how did the “prostitute” emerge as a key concept in attempts by British and elite Indian men to “know” India?
Durba Mitra (Harvard University) tackles these puzzles in her latest book, I
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