Gregory Castle

Yeats, Revival, and the Temporalities of Irish Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

By examining Yeats's worldmaking capacity to engage with the Irish past, this book offers a new understanding of Yeats's revivalism and its relation to his modernism. It considers, through close reading and contextual analysis, the nature of Yeats's achievements and innovations in poetry, drama, essays, autobiography, and occult philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781009411677
• ISBN-10: 1009411675
• Artikelnr.: 69669512

Autorenporträt

Gregory Castle is Emeritus Professor at Arizona State University. His publications include Modernism and the Celtic Revival (2001), Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman (2006), and The Literary Theory Handbook (2013). He is editor of A History of the Modernist Novel (2015) and co-editor (with Patrick Bixby) of A History of Irish Modernism (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Time, Recognition, and the Worlds of Yeats's Work
1. The Irish Revival and Yeats's Literary Nationalism
2. 'A dream-heavy land': Other Worlds in Yeats's Early Poetry and Drama
3. 'O when will it suffice?': Poetry and Responsibility
4. 'The Age-Long Memoried Self': Vision and Aesthetic Bildung
5. 'I make the truth': Cuchulain's Heroic Worlds
6. 'They had changed their throats': Testament and Time
Conclusion: Yeats's 'A General Introduction for my Work'.