Yeats and afterwords : Christ, culture, and crisis / edited by Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente ; contributors, Guinn Batten [and eleven others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth, editor.

Valente, Joseph, editor.

Batten, Guinn, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Yeats, W. B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats's powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned himself at various historical endpoints-of Romanticism, of the Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization itself-and, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics of iteration capable of registering the experience of finality and loss. While the crafting of such a poetics remained a constant throughout Yeats's career, the particular shape it took varied over time, depending on which lost object Yeats was contemplating. By tracking these vicissitudes, the volume offers new ways of thinking about the overarching trajectory of Yeats's poetic engagements. Yeats and Afterwords proceeds in three stages, involving past-pastness, present-pastness, and future-pastness. The first, "The Last Romantics," examines how Yeats repeats classic motifs and verbal formulations from his literary forebears in order to express the circumscribed cultural options with which he struggles. The essays in this section often uncover Yeats's relation to sources and precursors that are surprising or have been relatively neglected by scholars. The second section, "Yeats and Afterwords," looks at how Yeats subjects his own past sentiments, insights, and styles to critical negation, crafting his own afterwords in various ways. The last section, "Yeats's Aftertimes," explores how, thanks to the stature Yeats achieved through its invention, his style of belatedness itself comes to be reiterated by other writers. Yeats is a towering figure in literary history, hard to follow and harder to avoid, and later writers often found themselves producing words that were, in some sense, his afterwords. "This is a groundbreaking collection that will have a major impact on Yeats studies and will be useful for scholars working more broadly in Irish and modernist studies." -Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: The Last Romantics""; ""Chapter 1: The Revivalist Museum""; ""Chapter 2: The Death of Cuchulain's Only Son""; ""Chapter 3: The Dark Arts of the Critic""; ""Chapter 4: Nation for Art's Sake""; ""Part II: Yeats and Afterwords""; ""Chapter 5: "The Age-Long Memoried Self"""; ""Chapter 6: Afterwardsness""; ""Chapter 7: "The clock has run down and must be wound up again"""; ""Chapter 8: Yeats's Graves""; ""Part III: Yeats's Aftertimes""; ""Chapter 9: "Echo's Bones"""; ""Chapter 10: Yeats and Bowen""

""Chapter 11: The Legacy of Yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry""""Chapter 12: "All that Consequence"""; ""Contributors""; ""Index of Names""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780268081768

026808176X

OCLC:

890674606