Yeats, revival, and the temporalities of Irish modernism / Gregory Castle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castle, Gregory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Irish, in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Ireland.

Modernism (Literature).

Time in literature.

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

Yeats, W. B.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Note on citations

List of abbreviations

Introduction : time, recognition, and the worlds of Yeat'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" : visiion 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 to my work"

Works cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Apr 2024).

ISBN:

9781009411707

1009411705

9781009411714

1009411713

9781009411691

1009411691