Adventures in the deeps of the mind : the Cuchulain cycle of W.B. Yeats / Barton R. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, Barton R., author.

Series:

Princeton essays in literature.

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Essays in Literature

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Celtic--Ireland.

Mythology, Celtic.

Mythology, Celtic, in literature.

Cú Chúlainn (Legendary character).

Cú Chúlainn.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (167 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Barton Freidman demonstrates that, as a cycle, the Cuchulain plays form a paradigm of Yeats's dramatic career. They trace his progress, the author contends, toward finding a genuine dramatic mode, and examination of this process reveals much about a playwright whose work is simultaneously great literature and extaordinarily effective theater. In his interpretation of the Cuchulain cycle the author concentrates upon dramatic method. He examines first the evolution of Yeats's dramatic aesthetic and his attempts to translate it into practice. He then treats each play of the cycle in order of composition, moving from On Baile's Strand, of which the first version was begun in 1901, to The Death of Cuchulain completed in 1939. Deirdre is included, since it demonstrably belongs to the cycle.Professor Freidman discusses not only the plays in their final form but, in crucial instances, Yeats's revisions of them, which frequently illuminate his dramatic designs. In the cases of The Green Helmet and The Only Jealous of Emer, he considers as well as their alternative versions, The Golden Helmet and Fighting the Waves. The analysis draws on Yeats's poetry and his theories of history, mythology, and art, and it shows that Yeats succeeds where his Romantic precursors had failed, in finding ways of staging "the deeps of the mind."Barton R. Friedman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Toward Staging the Deeps of the Mind

II. The Ruins of Time

III. Getting the Story Right

IV. "I Choose the Laughing Lip"

V. In the Eye of the Mind

VI. Between Two Worlds

VII. A Mansion in Eternity

Index

PRINCETON ESSAYS IN LITERATURE

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691656427

0691656428

9780691198439

0691198438

OCLC:

1132224274