Reframing Yeats : genre, allusion and history / Charles I. Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Charles I., 1969- author.

Series:

Historicizing Modernism

Historicizing modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yeats, W. B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Reframing Yeats, the first critical study of its kind, traces the historical development of W. B. Yeats's writings across the genres, examining his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama with the same critical analysis. While existing studies of Yeats's work choose between a biographical orientation or a formalist approach, Armstrong's study combines the theory of New Historicism and Hermeneutics: a theoretical approach that takes Yeatsian scholarship one step further. Grounded in history and informed by recent studies, this innovative approach presents new interpretations and understandings of Yeats's texts. As well as providing a fresh reading of "Among School Children" and situating his autobiographical writings in relation to preceding Victorian practices and contemporary experimentation, this groundbreaking work documents some of the most important existing readings of Yeats's relationship to history, Modernism and the literary genres."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: "Ancient salt"

Yeats at breakfast

Patterns of biography

Autobiographical reverie

Ancient frames in a vision

Disputing the resurrection

Tragic modulations

Vox populi

Ekphrasis and excess

Shakespeare, sonnets, and sonnetic monstrosities

Coda: Yeats and the transcendence of genre.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472543851

1472543858

9781623563530

1623563534

9781441139719

1441139710

OCLC:

855504307